Potawatomi Quotes

“Home is elusive.
It shapeshifts with the currents
of my heart and its will.
Home is a trickster changing
according to the medicine
of the season and its lesson."
-Prodigal Daughters (Kimberly Wesnaut)”
― Joy Harjo, When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry

“Maybe it is the thunders
who breathed life into my body.
They are forever wanting
to lift me high and carry me away."
-Prodigal Daughters (Kimberly Wesnaut)”
― Joy Harjo, When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry

“A bay is a noun only if water is dead. When a bay is a noun, it is defined by humans, trapped between its shores and contained by the word. but the verb wiikwegamaa – to be a bay – releases the water from bondage and lets it live. ‘To be a bay’ holds the wonder that, for this moment, the living water has decided to shelter itself between these shores, conversing with cedar roots and a flock of baby mergansers.”
― Robin Wall Kimmerer, The Democracy of Species

“Do you know what Gimiwan means?" I ask.

"It means 'rain.”
― Angeline Boulley, Sisters in the Wind