"This is a story my people tell about the Lodges. It isn't an Indian story; it's a story Indians tell, but it comes from the people who were here before us."
Coffee.
"People have killed for this land. Andrew Packard was killed for it. Indians were killed for it. And we killed for it."
"Our people worship spirits of the land, of the woods and plains and rivers. The people before us worshipped older things. Mammoths. Tigers. Storms and mountains. And the people they killed worshipped even older things."
"Spirits from outside. The things we know about the Lodges, about the Grove, have been handed down from those people."
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Date: 2006-12-13 06:25 am (UTC)"This is a story my people tell about the Lodges. It isn't an Indian story; it's a story Indians tell, but it comes from the people who were here before us."
Coffee.
"People have killed for this land. Andrew Packard was killed for it. Indians were killed for it. And we killed for it."
"Our people worship spirits of the land, of the woods and plains and rivers. The people before us worshipped older things. Mammoths. Tigers. Storms and mountains. And the people they killed worshipped even older things."
"Spirits from outside. The things we know about the Lodges, about the Grove, have been handed down from those people."