Quotes from Kathleen Eagle

You must have had friends. Didn't you have friends in the army?" He drew a long, slow breath. Just generally he told himself. That was all she was asking. " In the army, you've damned if you do and damned if you don't. You want somebody you can trust at your back, but you get to close... They get blown away, and you're blown away with them.

The best way to keep a nation down is to silence their leadership," Jack said.

Indians had been both demonized and romanticized in twentieth-century American lore, but it had taken the protest culture of the '60s to bring them to the fore as a group of Americans who had long been denied their land, their heritage and their basic civil rights.

Eventually the invaders saw something they wanted in this territory, too. Not fish for food, but fish for sport. Not living, breathing trees, but timber. Not earth, but minerals. It was a clash of values.