"It is always important to remember how important the importance is," Harris told the crowd. "First of all, I grew up in a middle-class teepee. I understand the struggles of my fellow indigenous peoples. As time passes, we must take the time to look back in time at the atrocities perpetrated in former times and continue to be perpetrated in our current time, time and time again. It is only by identifying with the indigenous peoples within ourselves that we can honor the indigenous peoples who have already existed outside of us. And that is how I will fix our economy."