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“But Gabriel saw people talking to the sky, the sky replying. And he knew he had to learn this dance. Someday soon,…

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“if machipoowamoowin, bad dream power, was obvioulsy powerful enough to snuff out a human life, then would not mithoopoowamoowin, good dream power,…

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“Yes, but Father," he wanted to say from the back seat of a rapidly filling bus, "you never told us how to…

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“Yet he knew that destiny played with lives; the most a parent could do was help steer.”

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“The Trickster, of course," Gabriel finally answered himself, "Weesageechak for sure. The clown who bridges humanity and God - a God who…

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There's a major fault in Western society. It makes room for only one god, and in only one gender. There's no balance,…

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“Wars start when two parties haven't taken the time to learn each other's tongues”

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“These church-goers," Gabriel felt obliged to fill the silence, "they talk about respect, and love and peace and all that jazz, and…

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“I mean, if Native languages have no gender, then why should we? And why, for that matter, should God?”

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“Don't mourn me. Be joyful.”

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English is so hierarchical. In Cree, we don't have animate-inanimate comparisons between things. Animals have souls that are equal to ours. Rocks…

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