"The spiritual impact that religious, administrative and corporate colonization has upon indigenous people is like a technological form of mining the energy of the planet. We are forms of that energy. That's the 'being' part of us. The human form is made up of metals, minerals and liquids of earth. All things of the earth have 'being.' We know they can take the bone, flesh and blood out of the earth that is uranium and put it through a mining-refining process and convert its being into a form of energy, and we know they can do it with fossil fuel. And we know that when they do these things it leaves behind poisons and toxins. When the industrial ruling class mine the 'being' part of human through programming the human to believe their obedience. Human beings enter this reality with all this distortion, based upon there being something wrong with them, and fear comes real quickly. Mine the being part of humans, fear is the toxin left behind from that mining. We've been picked apart, we end up as human beings having this tendency to feel powerless. It's everywhere .…this powerlessness feeling is prevalent on this planet. "
John Trudell, Santee Sioux