Harlau Barehand, Gila River Indian Nation “I didn't learn English ’til I was in fourth grade, because I hated the white man. I did not like what they did to my people. Raping, killing, stealing. They slaughtered the buffaloes, not for meat, for greed. All those things are evil. What kind of people do that? Who are these people that were sent here? The first thing they want to do is shoot you and take your land and everything you have. And then they call that civilization, and they call us heathens. We read the stars, we built pyramids, we built all kinds of vessels, we were mathematicians and physicians, you know, we had cures for everything. We even survived in the desert. We're not savages. When they started killing our mothers and children, we turned around and retaliated. This is our country. What makes it your country? Because you defeated the people? Does that make it your country? No, it doesn't make it your country. You stole it. It's not yours. It never was. It never will be.”