IINTERVIEWER UNKNOWN: What I want to talk to you about is your own personal life, where you found your inspiration, and what you see is the true nature of the problem that is before us today with regards to nuclear weapons and everything else that is associated with nuclear weapons, which is environmental degradation, exploitation of native peoples throughout the world.
JOHN TRUDELL: Well. Where I lived my life or how I came to any conclusions in my life is, I’ve just lived as what is called an Indian. In America. And my experiences in America have been both in the U. S. America and Canada America. And anything that I am, it came from that experience. And you know I never put too much thought into this word, inspiring. I’ve never really looked at it like that. It just that there are certain realities that we just have to deal with. Because when we ‘re looking at what the problem against us is. It’s greed. And it’s the machine age. The entire industrialized world is totally out of balance. We live in a natural world and everything’s in balance in the natural world. It’s how all the different pieces fit together that makes the balance of the natural world. But we look at the societies that we live in. There is no balance. Everyone’s off balance. Everyone’s confused and everyone feels powerless, or something.
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