Míchílín

“History may well be a series of stories we tell about the past, but the stories are not just any stories. They're not chosen by chance. By and large, the stories are about famous men and celebrated events. We throw in a couple of exceptional women every now and then, not out of any need to recognize female eminence, but out of embarrassment.”
― Thomas King, The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America

“I understood then that when you miss a thing it leaves a hole that only the thing you miss can fill.”
― Richard Wagamese, Indian Horse

“Actions born of contemplation are wiser than those made in quiet desperation. If all that's true, and I feel it is, then I have grown some in these 61 years. I have learned and become a better person. And from that maybe it's the years ahead that will be the richest of my life. A quiet man moving forward, gladly beyond all expectation.”
― Richard Wagamese, Embers: One Ojibway's Meditations

“She only nodded. "It's all we are in the end. Our stories.”
― Richard Wagamese, Medicine Walk