“that's exactly the good thing about the Injun life--you don't have to stop and think about whether or not you're 'happy'--which in my opinion is a highly overrated human condition invented by white folks” — Jim Fergus Copy Share Image
Yet only the atrocities of the conquered are referred to as criminal acts; those of the conqueror are justified as necessary, heroic, and even… — Jim Fergus Copy Share Image
“...the Sierra, a region so quiet and pristine that we have the sense of being the first human beings ever to set foot in… — Jim Fergus Copy Share Image
Your power as a woman, as a mother, is your medicine, and it saved you. Take your courage in that. — Jim Fergus Copy Share Image
“For their part, the savage men appear to spend an inordinate amount of time lounging around their lodges, smoking and gossiping among themselves...so that… — Jim Fergus Copy Share Image
Don't you know that I laugh because it is my last defense against tears? — Jim Fergus Copy Share Image
“I push him from my mind. This is no act of easy omission on my part; I do not consign him casually to a… — Jim Fergus Copy Share Image
“I knew then that when we had crested that final tortuos pass in the rocks and dropped down into this valley, we had crossed… — Jim Fergus Copy Share Image
“that's exactly the good thing about the Injun life--you don't have to stop and think about whether or not you're 'happy'--which in my opinion… — Jim Fergus Copy Share Image
“Ah but Art never fails anyone, magic and medicine may certainly fail, but never Art.” — Jim Fergus Copy Share Image
“It was our understanding that we were to be instructing them in the ways of the civilized world, not being made beasts of burden,… — Jim Fergus Copy Share Image
“But others of us believed that the only true happiness our Sara had ever known in her short life on this earth had been… — Jim Fergus Copy Share Image
