"Though many non-Native Americans have learned very little about us, over time we have had to learn everything about t…"

"One of the issues that I wanted to comment on, and probably the most important issue today for the record, is the iss…"

"I think the Cherokee approach to life is being able to continually move forward with kind of a good mind and not focu…"

"The only issue in the first election was my being female," she said. "That was a total — a total issue in the entire …"

"There still exists in this country many negative stereotypes about Black people, Latin people, and Asian people. God …"

"In our tribal stories, we have heard of a Woman's Council, which was headed by a very powerful woman, perhaps the Ghi…"

"Europeans brought with them the view that men were the absolute head of households, and women were to be submissive t…"

"During the long healing process, I fell back on my Cherokee ways and adopted what our elders call "a Cherokee approac…"

"From the start, I figured most people would be bothered about my ideas on grass-roots democracy and the fact that I h…"

"I heard all sorts of things-some people claimed that my running for office was an affront to God. Others said having …"