But now the pace is running so fast. People are now living 2,000 miles away from where their grandparents were buried. They may live somewhere four years, then move to Seattle, Austin, Minneapolis. So they end up taking their identity from their peer group, subscribe to the right magazines, go to the right restaurants, but it's not enough. They're trying to find their own memory,' says John Trudell.
White people are the descendants of tribes also.
The civilizing process is to erase the tribal or ancestral memory. It's just that the erasing of their tribal memory started 3,000 years ago. For us it started 500 years ago. If you look at most Caucasian people, they don't even remember their great grandparents. The other side of the coin is a tangle of self-deception for white colonizers, now trying to appropriate the spirituality of the very same people they've colonized.