"Indian PEOPLE talk about HOW the world IS. Their stories are about how the wolf GOT THE NAME wolf. HOW MOsquitoes got to be sucha anasty little things. How elk got antlers; what bears says to bees when they want the honey; how the river sings a song to the trees and how trees sing back. (...) Whites talk about: gold, money, dollars and dollars, but whatever they say, they always refer to something else. They speak of them as though they were not yet alive. Almost all of them, with little exception, are afraid to be who they are.”