By incorporating history, by remembering, Indian women continue to define themselves. It is through this remembering that we survive. It is through t… - Linda Hogan

the more I observe the world, the more I learn about it, the more I think that there's a vast terrestrial intelligence all around us.

resurrection ferns that wait for a rain like dead things and then open up new and green and beautiful like they are doing right now out on the hurricane felled trees, like they didn’t know it was catastrophe that gave them life. Maybe, I think, I am like those ferns. Ama’s like the rain. (p101)

We live not only inside a body but within a story as well, and our story resides in the land as sure as the vision of Dorothea Lange's desperate, running horse. (p 204)