That was the responsibility that went with being human, old Ku’oosh said, the story behind each word must be told so there could be no mistake in the… - Leslie Marmon Silko

the material world and the flesh are only temporary - there are no sins of the flesh, spirit is everything!

The ancestors had called Europeans “the orphan people” and had noted that as with orphans taken in by selfish or coldhearted clanspeople, few Europeans had remained whole. They failed to recognize the earth was their mother. Europeans were like their first parents, Adam and Eve, wandering aimlessly because the insane God who had sired them had abandoned them.

The white man had violated the Mother Earth, and he had been stricken with the sensation of a gaping emptiness between his throat and his heart.