7.) "The Longest Walk", July 1978, a joint position paper on "Genocide" issued from Dine (Navajo), the Lakota (Sioux) and the Haudenenosaunee (Six Naitons of the Iroquois Confederacy)(10 min read)
"For countless thousands of years our people have lived on this continent in peace and tranquility, coexisting with all natural life. In the beginning we were told that the human beings who walk upon the Earth have been provided with all the things necessary for life. We were instructed to carry a love for one another, and to show a great respect for all beings of this Earth. We were shown that our life exists with the tree life, that our well-being depends on the well-being of the vegetable life, that we are close relatives of the four-legged. In our way, spiritual consciousness is the highest form of politics. Our Roots are deep in the lands where we live. We have a great love for our country, for our birthplace is here. The soil is rich from the bones of thousands of our generations. Each of us was created in these lands and it is our duty to take care of them, because from these lands will spring the future generations of our peoples. We walk about with great respect, for the...