Legacy
Hank Adams is considered by many in the Indian Community as one of the most influential people in the movement. Leonard Garment, the lead White House aide in both the BIA and Wounded Knee, said of Adams: "Hank Adams' role in the peaceful resolution of some very difficult problems is still vividly clear in my mind." Vine Deloria, Jr., one of the most influential Native American writers, said Adams was the most important Indian of the last 60 years. His activist career slowed with age.
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“What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.”
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