Shannon

“We Anishinaabeg are the keepers of the names of the earth. And unless the earth is called by the names it gave us humans, won’t it cease to love us? And isn’t it true that if the earth stops loving us, everyone, not just the Anishinaabeg, will cease to exist? That is why we all must speak our language, nindinawemagonidok, and call everything we see by the name of its spirit. Even the chimookomanag, who are trying to destroy us, are depending upon us to remember. Mi’sago’i.”
― Louise Erdrich, The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse

“The moonless sky was a rich wild blackness of stars.”
― Louise Erdrich, The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse

“Sometimes people try to destroy you, precisely because they recognize your power—not because they don’t see it, but because they see it and they don’t want it to exist.”
― Bell Hooks

“When women age into their power, no wind can upset them, no hand turn aside their knowledge; no fact can deflect their point of view.”
― Louise Erdrich