Clyde Warrior

Clyde Merton Warrior (1939–1968) was a Native American activist and leader, orator and one of the founders of the National Indian Youth Council. He participated in the March on Washington and the war on poverty in the 1960s and was a charismatic speaker on Indian self-determination.

Biography Clyde Merton Warrior was born 31 August 1939 near Ponca City, Oklahoma, to Gloria Collins and was raised by his grandparents in the Ponca traditions. He was a member of the Ponca Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma. He spoke the Ponca language, Newspapers classed him as a world champion dancer by 1957 and in 1958, he won an award in a state-level high school art competition.

Warrior attended Cameron Junior College in Lawton, Oklahoma. He earned the Outstanding Indian Student Award in 1962, and he was elected President of the Southwest Regional Indian Youth Council.

Marriage and family In 1962, Warrior married Della Hopper (Otoe-Missouria). The couple had two daughters. held in Chicago, Illinois with educators and anthropologists, and frustrated Native Americans a "Declaration of Indian Purpose: the Voice of the American Indian" – a policy created for Indians by Indians was produced. The policy was delivered to President John F. Kennedy, but the youth leaders went on to form the National Indian Youth Council (NIYC) in Gallup, New Mexico later that summer, to translate words into actions. Warrior was a participant at both the Chicago conference and the subsequent meeting in Gallup.

After the meeting, Warrior was nominated to the Ponca tribal council and was a popular speaker on college campuses. He became the co-editor of Indian Voices, a periodical created at the University of Chicago and "We Are Not Free"

Death Warrior died at the age of 28 on July 19, 1968, due to liver failure after years of excessive alcohol use. He is buried in Ponca City. His epitaph says, "A Fresh Air of New Indian Idealism."

Quote "We are not free. We do not make choices. Our choices are made for us."

"The sewage of Europe does not run through these veins."