Our young people today are faced with the extremely difficult task of find­ing a way to live as Indigenous people in a world that does not value their continuing survival as Indigenous people, and with very little support and much resistance to their continuing cultural survival on the part of older people in their nations. Colonialism is an historic and ongoing process that has virtually destroyed traditional Native cultures and it has transformed our so-called leaders into the mental servants of capitalists and the colonial state. Far from being a post-colonial era, I believe we are entering a new phase of colonialism, and the most dangerous time in the history of our peoples.