Dennis Banks Educator Quotations

It is an understanding with the Great Spirit or Creator that we will follow these ways.

In 1967 the last Unity Caravan was held.

Many young Japanese were hearing for the first time the words of Native people from the West.

When we arrived in Japan in 1988, we were not prepared for the overwhelming support shown to us.

When the run is over, there will be a closing ceremony and the runners will return to the many distant lands from which they came.

At the first gathering of the Elders' Circle in 1976, a statement was issued concerning the unique balance between Humankind and our Mother Earth.

Rather than point fingers at corporations, we came to the conclusion that we should strengthen our own ceremonies, strengthen what we do.

In 1990 we ran across Europe through 13 countries and covering 7,130 miles.

Then a strong bond develops as they ride together, pray together, eat meals together, and gather in the evening remembering the day's run.

An awareness reached across America that if Native American people had to resort to arms at Wounded Knee, there must really be something wrong.