"When you get cornered, boxed in, with nowhere to go, and your people are attacked ... you resist... They take your land, your traditional ways, and then they want to start education their way, and all that is a continuation of their system. It's hard to be an Indian. They embargo your people, your ways, your nationhood. I had to expose this system that is used to destroy us, what is why I talked to the U.N., because we are a nation ... They say "we acquired the land, we conquered this land, but we, the Sioux nation were never conquered. We will take our sovereignty ... " - Grass-man, (pseudonym) 1993. interview given at the "Indigenous Voices and Genocide Meetings" in Chicago, 10/24/93. (Traditional and modern Lakota and Dakota "Sioux Indians" from Standing Rock continue to use one phrase which represents their cultural mosaic, -- "o-Mitakuye Oyasin"-- which means "we are all related" -- demonstrating the respect for all of one's relations that make up identity.) http://jwsr.pitt.edu/ojs/index.php/jwsr/article/viewFile/110/122