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“Sometimes you need to protect your heart from the pain.”

Heartbreak

Book:Warrior Girl Unearthed

Source: Warrior Girl Unearthed

“It's complicated. Loving imperfect people.”

Love Emotion Complicated Relationship Complicated Love

Book:Sisters in the Wind

Source: Sisters in the Wind

“Each lie is a fish, with a bigger fish swallowing the one preceding.”

Honesty Integrity Lies

Book:Firekeeper’s Daughter

Source: Firekeeper’s Daughter

“Auntie's voice wraps me like a blanket. 'Please be careful. Not every Elder is a cultural teacher, and not all cultural teachers are Elders. It's okay to listen to what people say and only hold on to the parts that resonate with you. It's okay to leave the rest behind. Trust yourself to know the difference'.”

Wisdom Growing Wise Words Becoming

Book:Firekeeper’s Daughter

Source: Firekeeper’s Daughter

“Lucy, college is a necessity for a secure future, my dad had said a few years ago. For women, a master's degree is the minimum.”

School Education College Women Empowerment Degree

Book:Sisters in the Wind

Source: Sisters in the Wind

“It's not just about winning; it's about how you conduct yourself and represent your community.”

Respect

Book:Warrior Girl Unearthed

Source: Warrior Girl Unearthed

“Gichimanidoo is our word for God. Creator. Gih-CHEE-man-ih-doe is perfect. We humans are flawed.”

God Religion Spirituality Creator Native American American Indian Ojibwe Anishnaabe Native Languages

Book:Sisters in the Wind

Source: Sisters in the Wind

“It's your journey. You gotta do your work and I gotta do mine.' I taste salt from my tears. 'Your need scares me. I'm afraid I'll focus on your needs over mine.' I clear my throat. Breathe in and out. Steady myself. 'I love you... and I love myself. I want us to be healthy and strong. On our own. So that no matter what happens, whether we meet again or not...' I look him in the eye. "Love means wanting you to have a good life, even if I'm not in it. And your love for me? It should be that strong, so you want that for me, too'.”

Love Focus Journey Health Need Good Life Strong Love

Book:Firekeeper’s Daughter

Source: Firekeeper’s Daughter

“If you need an intelligent go-getter, hang out with tech girls. They have resources and can get shit done.”

Empowerment Encouragement Women Empowerment Strong Women Tech Women In Tech

Book:Sisters in the Wind

Source: Sisters in the Wind

“The card has a black bird graphic and unfamiliar words: Gaagaagi Noodin. The back of the card lists a cell-phone number and an e-mail address, and there's a handwritten message: Lucy, come home where you are loved.”

Love Family Ojibwe Native Languages Anishinaabe

Book:Sisters in the Wind

Source: Sisters in the Wind

“Abe held a palmful of loose-leaf tobacco. He called it semaa—SAY-mah—and asked if I'd like to offer some to give thanks for my dad. I held out my hand. He nudged my other hand. "Left hand," he said. "Closer to your heart.”

Culture Loss Family Native American Indigenous Tobacco Semaa

Book:Sisters in the Wind

Source: Sisters in the Wind

“You can change my name to Misho Abe. ME-show is short for Mishomis. It means 'Grandpa.”

Family Grandfather Ojibwe Native Languages Anishinaabe

Book:Sisters in the Wind

Source: Sisters in the Wind

“Native families are like onions—rough-looking on the outside. People want to people the outer layers and toss them away, as if they have no value. But each layer is protecting the next, down to its innermost core. That green center, where the onion is sweetest, that's the Native child. Surrounded by layers of family and community.”

Inspirational Community Family Native American American Indian

Book:Sisters in the Wind

Source: Sisters in the Wind

“When you love someone, but don't like parts of them, it complicates your memories of them when they're gone.”

Grief Grieving Grief And Loss

Book:Firekeeper’s Daughter

Source: Firekeeper’s Daughter

“They say children who lose a parent have grief milestones. Like, when you reach the age that your parent was when they died.”

Death Loss Grief Grief And Loss Death Of A Parent

Book:Sisters in the Wind

Source: Sisters in the Wind

“Good people say goodbye.”

Loss Leaving Missing Someone Goodbyes

Book:Sisters in the Wind

Source: Sisters in the Wind

“Jamie was right. It is a powerful moment when you witness someone cross from this world to the next. It's an honor, really.”

Death Loss Death And Dying Crossing Over

Book:Sisters in the Wind

Source: Sisters in the Wind

“You're a gloomy cloud raining sadness all over me.”

Emotions Upset Gloom Rain Clouds

Book:Sisters in the Wind

Source: Sisters in the Wind

“Levi's betrayal is a sinking anchor that still hasn't found bottom.”

Betrayal

Book:Firekeeper’s Daughter

Source: Firekeeper’s Daughter

“Warriors are willing to do what others can't or won't do for their community.”

Bravery

Book:Warrior Girl Unearthed

Source: Warrior Girl Unearthed

“For all the girls and women pushed into the abyss of expendability and invisibility.” Daunis, The FIrekeeper's Daughter”

Bravery Injustice Own Voices

Book:Firekeeper’s Daughter

Source: Firekeeper’s Daughter

“I pray…for all the girls and women pushed into the abyss of expendability and invisibility.” Daunis, The Firekeeper's Daughter”

Bravery Injustice Own Voices

Book:The Firekeeper’s Daughter

Source: The Firekeeper’s Daughter

“That girl's a gas can looking for a match.”

Fire Rage Strong Women Female Rage Rage And Ruin

Book:Sisters in the Wind

Source: Sisters in the Wind

“Gramma Pearl fixed my earache with my pee!" GrandMary recoiled and, a heart-beat later, glared at my mother as if this was her fault. something split inside me when I saw my mother's embarrassment. I learned there were times when I was expected to be a Fontaine and other times when it was safe to be a Firekeeper.”

Native American Own Voices Native American History Small Town Mystery

Book:Firekeeper’s Daughter

Source: Firekeeper’s Daughter

“He leered at Auntie and asked if she’d show him which body parts were Indian. She throat-punched him. While he was gulping for air, my aunt told him he just experienced a real Indian fist and she had another if he wanted to see that one too.”

Indian Native American Native American Writer

Book:Firekeeper’s Daughter

Source: Firekeeper’s Daughter

“Wenn jemand stirbt, wechselt alles, was denjenigen betrifft, ins Präteritum. Außer die Trauer. Die Trauer bleibt im Präsens.”

Trauer

Book:Firekeeper’s Daughter

Source: Firekeeper’s Daughter

“Those stolen girls are dead now. One killed herself a few years after coming home. The other girl, your maternal grandmother, had Maggie. When you hear the words 'historical trauma' or 'generational trauma,' it's because of places like this. And people in power today who still won't acknowledge the things that happened there.”

Generational Trauma Residential Schools Historical Trauma Indian Boarding School Every Child Matters

Book:Sisters in the Wind

Source: Sisters in the Wind

“Border guards in Canada ask if ou're bringing any firearms into their country. On this side, they just wanna know about cigarettes. Unless you're visibly Nish. Then you get the full questioning. And if you're Nish and Black, like my uncle Art? You get a gun pulled on you at the border with your Nish wife and baby daughters in their car seats”

Racism Native American Black Lives Matter Racism In America Border Crossing

Book:Firekeeper’s Daughter

Source: Firekeeper’s Daughter

“All of these dancers. Imagine that each one is an atom, forming molecules of dancers fore each category: Traditional, Fancy, Grass, Jingle. You see the whole identity... Now focus on just one dancer-say, a Jingle Dress dancer...Every atom has subatomic parts. Her regalia includes a dress, belt, moccasins, and a lot of other items. Dancers don't start out with their full regalia; they get it bit by bit. Each piece is a connection to her family, her teachers, and even to ancestors generations back. If you know the story of her regalia-who and where and why each item came to be-then you know her.”

Native American Native American Dancing

Book:Firekeeper’s Daughter

Source: Firekeeper’s Daughter

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