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Potawatomi Quotes

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Joy Harjo
“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

Joy Harjo
“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

Robin Wall Kimmerer
“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

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

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