Dennis Banks

It also called upon traditional people in the Four Directions to strengthen the healing ceremonies and asked people to heed the warnings…

— Dennis Banks

That's what I'm doing. I'm trying to follow what I want to do as my dream. How do I become independent from…

— Dennis Banks

Even the people who come our way look upon us in amazement, that we run only for the healing of Mother Earth

— Dennis Banks

It was like a complicit - there was complicity between the churches and the state in taking care of the 'Indian problem,'…

— Dennis Banks

Since the beginning, Native Peoples lived a life of being in harmony with all that surrounds us. It is a belief that…

— Dennis Banks

It is an understanding with the Great Spirit or Creator that we will follow these ways.

— Dennis Banks

When we arrived in Japan in 1988, we were not prepared for the overwhelming support shown to us.

— Dennis Banks

I have a Father's Day every day

— Dennis Banks

To be selected was an honor, and in respect of the family member chosen to run, families held feasts and gave away…

— Dennis Banks

Most importantly, the meaning of spirituality lays the seeds for our destiny and the path we must follow.

— Dennis Banks

If we follow the white man, we're going to drown with the white man.

— Dennis Banks

It feels like now I - you know, I'm almost 80 years old - I can sit back and retire, you know,…

— Dennis Banks

In 1990 we ran across Europe through 13 countries and covering 7,130 miles.

— Dennis Banks

Since the beginning, Native Peoples lived a life of being in harmony with all that surrounds us

— Dennis Banks

In 1978, the tradition of running from village to village with a message was revived. that first run was from Davis to…

— Dennis Banks

Many young Japanese were hearing for the first time the words of Native people from the West.

— Dennis Banks

Every man should see the birth of his children

— Dennis Banks

I was taken to a boarding school when I was four years old and taken away from my mother and my father,…

— Dennis Banks

I ran away. I kept running away. Almost once a week, I'd run away from those schools. They'd catch me. They'd bring…

— Dennis Banks

In 1967 the last Unity Caravan was held.

— Dennis Banks

When you have a spiritual foundation, you look at poverty differently then.

— Dennis Banks

The Canadian run can be no different, at least in terms of actual running.

— Dennis Banks

The Sun, Moon and Stars are there to guide us.

— Dennis Banks

An awareness reached across America that if Native American people had to resort to arms at Wounded Knee, there must really be…

— Dennis Banks

And Americans realized that native people are still here, that they have a moral standing, a legal standing.

— Dennis Banks