Iron Shell Quotes

“In 1912, the chief had his first ride in a motorcar. Studying our ancestors’ history, I am always struck by the fact that my great-grandfathers and great-grandmothers made the jump from the Stone Age to the industrial age in one single lifetime. Iron Shell and Hollow Horn Bear grew up making their fires with flint and steel and had gone to war with bows and stone-tipped arrows. They lived off the buffalo. In their old age they rode in cars, made telephone calls, posed for photographs, and had dinner with journalists and politicians in fancy East Coast restaurants.”
― Mary Brave Bird, Ohitika Woman