Quotes from Win Blevins

From now on you will eat nothing." Coming-from-the-Water took a skunk skin, slit it, and draped it around Sam's shoulders and chest. "Come," called Bell Rock. A half-dozen men came in, some carrying drums. Immediately, they started a song. "Attention," said Bell Rock. Sam sank his mind into the music. From within the music, he only half-noticed what was done. Bell Rock painted

To be defeated by superior numbers, that was only physical. To give up your spirit, that truly would be death. He

Intuition? Yes, from experience I can say that's a kind of knowing that has no rationale, but just rises up your body, your mind, your whole being and lets you know.

made a pilgrimage to Fort Robinson, where he chose death over the loss of his freedom.

Only by going on an untrod path, by making your own path, by being your singular self, can anyone find his own grail. In

a flagstone path curved into the darkness of space toward… who knows where? I knew—that's knew—I had to follow that path.

I wanted only what I had asked from the pipe of the sun dancer—that the words that came from the spirits through me change a million hearts. They needed changing. Twenty

Half a life ago I was one man, and am now another. Where once I paid attention to my head, I now follow my heart. Where I once I strove for achievement, I now seek to give and receive love. Though I still want to earn a living, my writing now is entirely born in love and offered as love. I

Oh, isn't life a terrible thing, thank God.

Out here we go hungry sometimes. There we would beg, humiliate ourselves, get robbed, and then starve. Now

Art brings the unseen into the world. That's why I don't paint what I see, or things based on old paintings. I paint what I dream. I'm bringing the other world into this one.

nothing was more peculiar about the whites than the way they were always refusing responsibility by saying they were following orders.

The badlands, the place where the earth itself was misshapen, where the gods had destroyed the ancient animals and hurled their bones into the earth.

You can do anything, be anything," his father often said, "if you're willing to accept what comes with it." All

It's not death people are afraid of. It's life.

1832: The Illinois militia effectively ended the Black Hawk War with the massacre of Black Hawk's tribe, including women, children, and old men.

The need to break her, to make her move to the touch of his harness, pumped through him like hot blood and bile. No

They are pitiful, the wasicu. They don't know enough to make peace with their own dreams. So the dreams torment them." Curly

General Crook had said when a reporter asked him what was the hardest thing about fighting Indians. Replied Three Stars, "Knowing you're wrong." Lieutenant

It was astonishing, the visitors said, the way all the white men worked together and set up the road so quickly, each man like a limb of a hundred-legged bug, each doing just what was needed at the right moment. A small thing for each man, but when it was done right, the bug scooted fast. Crazy

and barred windows. He

He cried for a vision and the answer was his blindness. He

when you drank, you lost control of your spirit. You had no power and no connection to Power.

cut a piece of moist skin from a dead horse, and tied it tightly over the wound. Curly