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Michi grinned mischievously. "And you thought that the lawsuit was only about saving the forest from oil!" he said. "It's also about saving the white people from themselves."
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"For the better part of my life, I had followed the white people. I had hammered my teeth out for them. I had left my home for them. They had filled me up with hopes and dreams and then they had broken me."
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"But what is it?"
Dad gazed into the distance. The sun glinted off the pipelines, the fence, the oil well.
"Oil," he said, "is the blood of our ancestors."
— Dec 29, 2024 12:35PM
Dad gazed into the distance. The sun glinted off the pipelines, the fence, the oil well.
"Oil," he said, "is the blood of our ancestors."
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"I looked at the chigra hanging in the corner, where Dad kept they money the company gave him... No one looked at it. No one cared about it. In our language, money is called tokore, which means something like "worthless paper." I wasn't quite sure what this money could be used for or how some worthless paper had killed Amo."
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"Do you believe in the white man's God?"
"No, he's of no use in the forest."
"But why do they talk up to the sky then?"
"For no good reason," Dad said. "God doesn't speak their language. He can't understand anything they say. That's why they talk so long to him with their eyes closed. They are waiting for him to respond, but he never does."
— Dec 29, 2024 10:16AM
"No, he's of no use in the forest."
"But why do they talk up to the sky then?"
"For no good reason," Dad said. "God doesn't speak their language. He can't understand anything they say. That's why they talk so long to him with their eyes closed. They are waiting for him to respond, but he never does."
