“And the hippies are jingling, jangling, blowing smoke all over Haight Ashbury, and they were letting their hair grow long. To the male Indian, this was a phenomenon, because for an Indian to grow his hair long was a violation of federal policy of 1906. According to the 1906 policy, food was withheld until compliance--in other words (by terms of this policy), we could be starved to death until we cut our hair.”
—Adam Fortunate Eagle (Red Lake Chippewa), on white privilege and the hippie movement in the Bay