Meet, get mad, and then work some more – Pat Bellanger

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Pat Bellanger of the American Indian Movement offers a Teachings for our Times short on the rhythm of organizing: meet, get mad, then work some more.

Themes: Self-determination, Intergenerational teaching

Citation: Pat Bellanger. "Meet, get mad, and then work some more – Pat Bellanger | Teachings for our Times." Warrior Women Archive, June 5, 2025. https://www.warriorwomenarchive.org/2025/06/05/meet-get-mad-and-then-work-some-more-pat-bellanger-teachings-for-our-times/.

Pat Bellanger
White Earth Band of Ojibwe
(2/13/1943 – 2/20/2015)

“There were a bunch of us that just kind of hung together. And so we started having regular meetings — meeting and not meeting and getting mad and leaving, but meeting, getting mad and coming back and working some more.”