Quiet Desperation

[woodsinme]

God bless you brother. May I sit with you. I am mournful of the past. I didn't do it but have family on all sides. We as a people (humankind) are sick of a lot of things. When we sit and talk and rebuke evil we heal. Thank you and peace to you.

[ThePerfectBlack100]

Never forget what the pale face has done be like water and eat slowly away at the callus stone

[KnowHowDOCTOR]

WHAT EVER YOU THINK OF THE ENTIRE WHITE WORLD IS RESULT OF TWO NATIONS. BRITISH AND ROMAN.DON'T THINK FOR A MINUTE THAT WE ARE ALL UNITED IN SOME WAY. WE ALL HAVE AN INDIVIDUAL LANGUAGE AND RELIGION AND MENTALITY.WE ARE DIVIDED.THERE ARE THOSE IN THE EASTERN PART OF EUROPE AND ASIA WHO WOULD NEVER THINK OR ACT LIKE THOSE IN THE WEST.HOWEVER THE STEREOTYPE WAS ALREADY MADE. RUSSIANS NEVER EVER TOOK PART IN HARMING NATIVES! WE ARE MIXED WITH OUR NATIVES AND SHARE THE SAME OUT LOOK ABOUT NATURE.

[BamaBoy205SR]

@KnowHowDOCTOR I do not think the pale face split hairs when they got hear what tribe they would colonize they colinized all native americans so why should whites not be treated as a whole they did not mind treating other ethnic groups that way

[KnowHowDOCTOR]

I do not want to sound rude! What I wanted to say was that my people like yours are related and we are the only one's who preserved our pagan heritage! I stand on your side and feel where your coming from because we have been there and lost many lives. The people who started subjecting us to this way of life were not white.It is simple Christianity started in Israel-the middle East. They are not white! Earth suffered a lot by people. Preserve your ways my friend,for people are brain washed today

[KnowHowDOCTOR]

I AM RUSSIAN AND YOU KNOW THEY DID THE SAME THINGS TO US WHEN THEY BAPTIZED EVERY ONE BY FORCE. WE ARE PROUD PAGAN PEOPLE AND WE ALWAYS RESPECTED THE SPIRIT OF NATIVES ! FIGHT FOR YOUR RIGHT TO EXIT BROTHERS AND SISTERS AND DON'T ALLOW THOSE SELF ABSORBED PEDOPHILE MANIACS BREAK YOUR SPIRIT. YOU ARE STRONG PEOPLE AND THEY CAN'T TAKE AWAY YOUR SOUL. THEY ALWAYS WANT TO CIVILIZE YOU, BUT YOU KNOW THEY JUST WANT YOU TO BE MORE DISTANT FROM NATURE SO THAT YOU BECOME THEIR SLAVE WHO KNOWS NOTHING

[motherofthedrummer]

Chi-Miigwetch for this powerful message.

[pimakilledsuki]

BOYCOTT TUCSON AZ THEY KILLED MY DOG SUKI ON 1/5/2011

[folsom90]

Thank You 

[marta5732010]

Wow! This video so surprised me. I now have a face to put to the book I have, written by Albert White Hat Sr. It is Lakota Iyapi un Wowapi nahan Yawapi. Reading and Writing the Lakota Language. I have the CD that accompanies it. I have been studying it since Sept. and am making slow progress. It is a really good book. I just wish I had Professor White Hat's email address. I have so many questions. Pilamayaye!

[MyHealingSoul]

I always wounderd why white people are so strange and weird? Why are whites suffering from bi-polar? Why whites have duel personality? Why whites love to illusinate? Why whites are running way from every one including themselves? It is because whites have their forefathers living their hateful lives through them. Whites have lost their understanding of what it is to be human because the sprits of their forefathers are live their genocidal hateful lives through their descendants. Good job white!

[KnowHowDOCTOR]

@MyHealingSoul I AM NOT GOING TO DISAGREE WITH YOU AND YOU KNOW THERE IS A LOT OF TRUTH TO WHAT YOU SAY. WE ALL TO SOME EXTENT CARRY WITH US THE BAGGAGE OF OLD FATHERS HATE.

HOW EVER THESE ARE THE TIMES WHEN ONE TRIBE OF PEOPLE ON THE GLOBE ARE USING ALL THEIR RESOURCES TO ENSLAVE MANKIND. ALL IN THE NAME OF A RELIGION THAT DISTANCES PEOPLE FROM NATURE, KNOWLEDGE AND THE TRUTH. I ALWAYS ENVIED ABORIGINALS BECAUSE THEY LIVED AND STILL MANAGE TO LIVE THE WAY NATURE AND OUR SPIRIT INTENDED.THANKS

[patrickintx]

We must reconcile the the cultural genocide. Our DNA is made up of the history of our ancestors. We must know the proud history of this land b4 greed came from Europe, and enslaved the spirits of the people. Hate is an evil spirit that is used by those that seek to take more than they need and used to control the masses and get them to do their bidding for very little in return. Know this the DNA is mixed which is the bottom line that made it so this country did not totally wipe out the DNA of

[createpeacenow]

Thank you for this, Albert.

And I would add this: it's one thing to understand the cause and effect of the anger. You talk about the Lakota having to deal with this for the next one hundred, two hundred years. There are people alive today with Indian blood in them, who don't know it, whose histories have been kept from them -- for good reason. At some point in their lives they will all feel this same anger, rage, the same need to go get a gun, and won't know where this anger comes from.

[robertallenmills]

love you, brother... may the comfort of the great spirit, come to you, and the love from mother earth embrace you. I feel your pain, and I am one with my people, the lakota.

radical forgiveness will save us, for anger only destroys the man, when it is kept inside, but forgiveness lets it go. forgive them, grandfather, for they know not what they do, I give it up to you, grandfather, to work it out for us.

[BamaBoy205SR]

@robertallenmills  Pale face you are no lokota dam the white eye have a sickness

I can not understand yall why do you all slaim to be the people you commit genocide against

[BamaBoy205SR]

@robertallenmills I guess you want to forgive the people who didd the

world trade center in also

[ghostown75]

if the bastard children of white eye wants to be forgiven by the inidan culture they should start by sliting their own throats in forgiveness

[BamaBoy205SR]

@ghostown75 man you are a dam genius. It is hard to forgive a people who will not return what they have taken It is funny why no one speaks of forgiving Osama Binladen I guess the only terroist that deserve forgivness is the Pale faced devil

I guess it is better to speak of forgivness since the invaders are still in the house they invaded with biger and better guns the question we must ask ourselves are we forgiving them out of fear of ethnic geonocide or is it that we truly forgive The devils

[TheOnlyRealTanYaisa]

I love this man....Sir Floyd Red Crow W.....He's the real deal. He is missed, truly missed. I only wish he'd been My Grandfather! What an honor that would have been.

[vangogh7]

truth that touched my heart tonight.... truth beyond religion , beyond, race or nationality......I know this rightious anger and this rightious truth....... you stand for truth or you stand for nothing.

[crusader881]

that fuckin clown is full of shit what the fuck does he know, a person who isn't a decent of the americas would say that most native americans would agree with me alot of them are my friends.if were not indingnous then what does that make you

[GrowingTreeAz]

The truth behind the old ways are still here within us all. Killing the Tiolet People will only make things worse. We are all part of the Modern World now, part of the society that murdered our ancestors. We must seek the truth of the old ways that is still within us all.

[indnbeaut]

My heart aches for what you went thru. I am an Indian that was adopted out and have spent many years reconnecting to learn the ways of my ancestors. So I am following the great cicle,,,what once was, will be again, Our greatest strengths are our hearts, our memories, our knowledge and our children,  I pray for knowledge and seek the light. Blessings and comfort to you!

Searching Spirit

[djay4evah]

thank you so much for your words....miigwich

[iamearthbornami]

so beautiful~so true

[manuetalain83]

Only a word: RESPECT

[EZ3Xicano]

@snowfox0910 WTF i have Native blood.. Mexico's population Has way more Pure and Half native americans than the U.S and Canada put together....

[PupuTheClown]

,,those are a totally different DNA tribe my friend, most can be identified by looks from northern Americans as compered to Mexican Indians, its their excuse to come here to the U.S. and demand rights saying they're indigenous and everything belongs to them.

[shetuphoenix]

Kola, Paha Sapa is our land of the Heart. Don't give up Hope. Our Love for the People is still strong. Soon, we will see the fulfillment of all of the beautiful Dreams of Love. Hugs & smiles, Mato

[shetuphoenix]

Vine, I will always Love you, your Love for the People is as strong as mine. May you always Dance across the Starlight Bridge of Hope with me

[Zenstea]

For what you do to others, you do to yourself.

It doesn't really matter what proportion of your pain&hatred belongs to your nation or race, and what proportion is personal. In either case, you can only go beyond it by taking responsibility for your present inner state now. Even if blame seems more then justified, as long as you blame others, you keep feeding the pain&hatred with your thoughts & actions, and you will remain trapped in your EGO forever. Let go & let live, Live in the Here & Now!

[bluwakpa]

If White Hat knew we could match the violent force of the wasicu, he woulda came off the hill and killed hella wasicus. We have to forgive bc were defeated? BC were outnumbered? Its time to accept the wasicus trespass and forgive him? We dont have to forgive him. We have to forgive ourselves for killing our own leaders like Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse, and yes even for Wounded Knee! We need to redeem ourselves and kill wasicu in our heart, spirit, mind and tongue. Kill wasicu, forgive our own.

[liknmylife]

My heart aches for the Native American people. I'm so sorry that my country committed genocide against your people. But now is the time. Now is the time for us ALL to learn from the Native Americans about how we are all connected, all life is sacred, and we are but merely a strand in the web.

Where do I go to learn more about NA spirituality? It's what the world needs right now.

[haydon3040]

Albert White Hat is the most beautiful man. I just saw this on Ken Burns' American West and was so deeply touched. I am so glad you have posted this clip. Thanks so much for sharing it.

[qualqui]

Albert White Hat,....an example for the rest of us. Tlaskamati for sharin' robertleokelly and glad my pal Tanya shared this with me! = )

[GODDAMEFAGS]

why don't we throw all those priests in jail.

[tscotty32]

I cried watching this.. I have a broken heart for everything our beloved Native Americans have suffered in the name of greed and religion. Though white I have Cherokee in my family.. I wish I knew them, I wish I could have met them, hunted with them, & lived with them. My heart will always be with the true sons and daughters of America. To me you are more valuable then all the gold that man ripped out of the ground here in this land. You are beautiful and i would love to be with you all..

[JDBW]

This breaks my heart....

[CetanSha]

Strong words and well spoken. The journey goes nowhere when many continue to beat the dead horse of yesterday. It is of no matter how hard or how long you beat it, it will not get up. It is time to get on a live horse and continue the journey. Yesterday is gone, never to return. Tomorrow is only illusory thoughts. It is what you do now that will determine what you are tomorrow. Do not waste time on hate, my friends. Your thoughts determine the world you see. Hecitu

[robertleokelly]

great comment. you are a wise person.

[kshabbi]

Well said, thank you for the kind words.

[Tbow088]

@CetanSha We will decide our own path. Not you...If we wish to be seperate from the global gene pool we will make it happen without any remorse or fear. OUR destiny as a people is OUR choice.

[bradwjensen]

P.S. this was a good video, and nice story. The last comment I gave was directed to someone else's comment about, "fuck all the whitemen."

[mondo78]

Powerful words that have a message to all. Not only to Native Americans but to all races and religions. He speaks of forgiveness and that is what we must do, do not forget but forgive. The past can not be changed, but we can do something about the future. Some say that the multi-cultural America is what makes us weak. I say it is what can make us strong if we do what is right for all. There is beauty in all cultures and that we must not forget.

[robertleokelly]

Great comment.

[ZuzecaAblaKela]

A video like this can help the third eye open.

It's a shame that if that should happen for someone the first thing they are going to see are comments of hate.

Mitakuye oyasin

[bradwjensen]

That, today, is a very ignorant thing to say. I was born "white" and I think that a whole lot of what people did in the past was quite wrong, but I don't blame those problems on specific races of people, nor people from today's time.

Even today we're very uncivilized, but we can work on improving that, over time. No one race is responsible for the things that happened in the past or the things that still happen today.

[wunnamurra]

Lima, I'm a white man on the outside only, trust in Heyoka, the creator is not stupid, I believe strongly in reincarnation, everything happens for a reason. White pagans (earth lovers), witches (herbalists) and many other whites were and have also been destroyed by religion, they are also in hidden pain. Have patience as this will play out. Trust in the trickster buddy. It's the underlying greed, pride, lust, and general energies that lay underneath that need to be destroyed, not colour.

[qualqui]

wunnamurra: these lines you write in your comment reveal an honorable and very wise man, i honor you with the -tzin suffix on your name, wunnamurratzin.

[ruchob]

great man r.i.p from ireland

[Neniitonoot]

Not to let the past dim our light for a better Future! We learn from the past yet it can not be changed.

Say if Columbus turned back no one would blame him, if he did, no one would know of him.

The past is done!

We can STOP the hate by stopping the blame. We rise above and Heal effects of past to walk now wisely in creative PEACE! Use each day to fill our lives and our children's lives with an acknowledgment to history yes, but walking now in light making each day POSITIVE with Mother Earth.

[chelxeaty]

both of my parents were victims of the boarding school. thank you.

my culture has keptd going. it never stopped!

my mom said 'we are still here'

and it has so much meaning.

thank you for your words!!!

mii'gwetch

(Ojibway Nation)

[buggeazy]

god said you will get your land back you once ruled the white man has stolen you gonna pay for the crime you have commited how can a nation of people steal a country then put another nation of people in captivity thats like me stealin a car and and kidnap somone at the same time but god knows all see all you may say if colored poeple dont like it here then go back to were you came god is gonna put us there and your soul gonna burn for your thievery

[chelxeaty]

thats your god.

thats the reason why i dont believe in your god.

'he makes no sense'

[buggeazy]

you nothing about life and if you did you would know that theres only one god not my god not your god ONE GOD!

[chelxeaty]

i dont waste my time trying to believe theres a god. i live my life.

[carlcs2]

Thank you for this video.

[Turquoiseheart]

Uncle, thank you! I have taken your words seriously and deeply.

[buggeazy]

thas your uncle?

[LakotaRepublic]

RUSSELL MEANS: FREEDOM. Support Republic of Lakota.

[illbesure4]

All amimaa;s fasting for peace meals

[h92801]

keep forgiving

[eilirudy]

What wisdom.

Superior beings indeed!

Love and honor and respect to your noble nation.

An Armenian

[grindintimes1]

Just one fricken state aaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh

I cannot change my skin color i cannot change who i am but dammit people quit bein cattle and standup for ure damm self u hear me get off ure ass and fight for your rights

[grindintimes1]

People were just to f'd up back then u know this dam government out of the 52 states the government made and the millions of square miles that are in this country.They could of given the indians at least one state to themselves

[chelxeaty]

one state!!! one state for natives...how about this. North america is OUR STATE!! our home, our land...no other aint is going to say were are from reservations...canada and american has always been our home!!!!!

[northernstate1]

Google "Europeans colonised America in 28,000 BC" by Roger Highfield, Science Editor, in Washington DC, and weep. The Asians migrated here 20,000 years ago, then genocided the The Europeans who had lived here for thousands of years. Next you can pay reparations to the Blacks for engaging in the slave trade, of which the Cherokee Nation was HUGE in!!

[grindintimes1]

your damm straight jesus would have never i mean never goshdangit and u listen to me good i love all peoples and im a christian and pardon my french but racism is bullshit

[tecramos]

i hope lakona nation gain their independence

[mtglinsk]

Hopefully there is a shift in consciousness occuring that will bring non native people around the world to the realization of just how destructive our world view has been.Thank You to all Lakota and other Native Americans for your perserverence in spite of the obstacles the dominant society has put in front of you. I truly believe a new era is coming and hopefully people will see where true wisdom lies.

[Kalymi7]

How do you know he didn't talk to them? R.I.P. Vernon, he and Russell keep this in the news, and that means people have to listen.

[budly69]

If they have talked to him his words obviously didnt do any good. Russ Means is nothing but bad publicity much like Vernon Bellecourt was. They are the radicals members of a good cause that completely twist and destroy the original mission.

[Kalymi7]

I notice several of your posts on youtube demeaning the work Russell Means has done. What's your beef with him? Are you Indian?

[Kalymi7]

I notice several of our posts on youtube demeaning the work Russell Means has done. What's your beef with him? Are you Indian?

[budly69]

He is an asshole. He shows up on my rez, starts a bunch of shit and then leaves all in the name of racism. He is most likely the most racist person I have ever had the agony of meeting. The man in this vid has the right idea on how to approach things. Russ Means just shows up around here, starts a bunch of shit, makes the news papers and then leaves. He is a joke.

[Kalymi7]

Are you Indian?

[budly69]

Yes. are you?

[Kalymi7]

This is true, however, the truth must be told or it is bound to be repeated.

[budly69]

This man is how things should be. "What happens in the past will never leave use-We will have to deal with it." I wish Vernon Bellecourt could have talked with him, I wish Clyde and Russ Means would. This man is truly an intelligent person. He doesnt ask for hatred as a reaction. He keeps on keeping on.

[Kalymi7]

Real Christians would never have treated your people like this. Jesus taught love. The boarding schools, the broken treaties, the forced sterilization, all of it, was done by greedy, power-hungry evil people, who hid behind the church and misrepresented Christianity and Jesus Christ.

[apachebutterfly]

You need to learn the history, the true history of this country. The US goverment put various Christain churches in charge of the reservations,they outlawed our religion and yes, it was true Christians who treated our people so badly. Are you not familiar with the concept of Manifest destiny? The so called God given right for them to take all we had?

[Kalymi7]

Jesus never taught Manifest Destiny, and they had no right to take the land or do anything they did. I think it was false Christianity, driven by money and power hungry people.

[JDBW]

There you go! I mean, look at what God inparted through Paul about how God didn't care if you were sercumsised, or of a different culter, or race. God just wants your heart, then HE'LL get to know you, he never wanted to be force fed, theres no love in that.

[Kalymi7]

Hypocrites that I am ashamed to be associated with.

[calujaro]

I try to learn something new every single day and today while I listened to you and watched the passion in your eyes with every word you said, I learned that as difficult as it may be to take the road of hate through our pain, that making some sort of forgiving peace within one's self will bring a renewed sense of strength that will far outweigh the injustices one may have faced.

Beautiful. I could listen to you for a vast amount of time.

[bunnybaby1]

Having been raised as a Christian I always knew who the better people were....and I still do.

It was the shame I carried as one of the white people that turned me against Christianity and followed a path of Spiritualism.

Thank You for your Light & Wisdom White Hat.

[sportsnutman5]

As a Christian, Im sorry for the damage my people have brought. The Church's treatement was almost directly hypocritical with the teaching of our own book, and Im ashamed to have them represent us as followers of Jesus Christ.

[robertleokelly]

That is one of the few times that I have heard a Christian apologize for these type of actions against the Native People. Thank you for your comment. Look for my other videos at robertleokelly on youtube.

[moparr1963]

As a white man I'm very sorry for what we have done to your people.

[Owlwoman47]

With due respect! Thank you! Yours words have moved me deeply!!

[CarlosMacMartin]

Thank you for sharing your story! Many injustices have

been done and continue to be played out all over this

earth.I pray that all human beings come to their god-

given senses and find inner peace within.Peace to all!

[Tahosapiya]

Mr. White Hat - your words tear through my soul. The world is a better place because you have kept your commitment, if only the white fathers had kept theirs.

Wakan Tanka nici un,

David White Cloud Burkhart

[MunisingWhiteHorse]

Great video.

At end you mention "gun to your head," sadly Lakota Redbud reservation declared emergency on teen suicide. 400 attempts in two years - 10 dead - most young men-teens.

I know Native Americans whose language is dying because their old boarding schools punished them for using indigenous language.

More schools - like in Hawaii - encourage native language spoken therefore preserved.

Families should use original language at home.

[noseMF]

for FREEDOM LIBERTY HAPPINESS AND MORE vote for ED BROWN AND NOSEMF.we will end the war and bring the soldiers home free housing free health free education and a lot more vote ED BROWN AND NOSEMF 2008

[8moge8]

thank-you

[itsnoonienotjune]

thank you....sorry... it was all our loss

[johnjayr]

Lila Waste, Leksi Albert. Pilamaya yelo.

[Cannook]

Very well spoken video . Thanks so much .  DianeMarie.

[ChristianOutlaw7]

EVERYBODY needs to watch this video.