I'm Native American, so it's in my blood to always want brothers and friends. I'm a good brotherhood guy.

I have Native American blood. I have African blood. I have European blood.

Through the years, I found we had Native American blood in us. My great-grandmother came from the island of Martinique, and they hooked up with the Native Americans of Louisiana.

I have a hard problem, being some part Native American - being a Christian: do you get burned, do you get cremated, do you get - let the sharks eat you? How do you die?

No. But then the American Government--whatever branch--has never really grasped the concept of tribal identity.

His grandfather had often told him that he tried too hard to move trees when a wiser man would walk around them.