Plains Indians Quotes

“Things don't always look as they seem. Some stars, for example, look like bright pinholes, but when you get them pegged under a microscope you find you're looking at a globular cluster—a million stars that, to us, presents as a single entity. On a less dramatic note there are triples, like Alpha Centauri, which up close turns out to be a double star and a red dwarf in close proximity.

There's an indigenous tribe in Africa that tells of life coming from the second star in Alpha Centauri, the one no one can see without a high-powered observatory telescope. come to think of it, the Greeks, the Aboriginals, and the Plains Indians all lived continents apart and all, independently, looked at the same septuplet knot of the Pleiades and believed them to be seven young girls running away from something that threatened to hurt them.

Make of it what you will.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

“Whatever the breed’s intentions were with Katherine, he’d sure put a spoke in his wheel. Had he known that this insolent bastard would show his face again, that he’d try to inveigle her with his smooth manners and even lure her out onto the prairie to—God forbid—seduce her, he would have put a stop to it back in November, that very day he had caught them in the barn. Yeah, he’d have set Katherine straight then and there. Told her bluntly and unmistakably to keep away from that Métis for good.
But he hadn’t.
He had underestimated the damned situation. Been wrong about Katherine, too.
Joe ground his teeth in anger and picked up his pace.
He didn’t even want to imagine how far this cursed dalliance might have gone already. Katherine’s lies alone told him enough.
Yes, she had lied to his face, shamelessly—she, of all people! That straight-laced, prim and proper East Coast goose, with her daily Bible readings! She had even dared deny that kiss, flat-out!
Goddammit! What the hell did she think she was doing?
Had his warnings not been plain enough?”
― Melanie Nova, The Avant-gardiste: Breaking Barriers

“Among Plains tribes, some men think that all a woman is good for is to crawl into the sack with them and mind the children. It compensates for what white society has done to them. They were famous warriors and hunters once, but the buffalo is gone and there is not much rep in putting a can of spam or an occasional rabbit on the table. As for being warriors, the only way some men can count coup nowadays is knocking out another skin's teeth during a barroom fight. In the old days a man made a name for himself by being generous and wise, but now he has nothing to be generous with, no jobs, no money”
― Mary Crow Dog, Lakota Woman