Oliver

“Ah, there is none more fearful of thieves than the one who has stolen something, and a kingdom is no small something.”
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Gods of Jade and Shadow

“Another Chief remembered that since the Great Father promised them that they would never be moved they had been moved five times. "I think you had better put the Indians on wheels," he said sardonically, "and you can run them about whenever you wish.”
― Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West

“It was remarkable all the things the tribe was told it needed when suddenly it had money.”
― Sierra Crane Murdoch, Yellow Bird: Oil, Murder, and a Woman's Search for Justice in Indian Country

“The world is almost peaceful when you stop trying to understand it.”
― Elizabeth Acevedo, The Poet X