At first, Orensen resisted our struggle. I think he believed we would hurt him. It was an ancient fear, that we would retaliate for past wrongs. He remembered the old roots of these new events. There was a time when our people had killed the animals, persuaded by the Europeans who would, even then, starve out anyone who didn’t cooperate. Then, when the people were hungry, the Europeans had dumped food into the lake to demonstrate their indifference to the hunger of the Indians.
