Mike Kelly

“Jesus walks onto the reservation through this body, the church. The Incarnation means that the church must be an indigenous Church. It means that the message that is Christian must be an indigenous message. It also means that one’s worship must be indigenous worship.”
― Cheryl Bear-Barnetson, Introduction to First Nations Ministry

“The world is full of bastards, the number increasing rapidly the further one gets from Missoula, Montana.”
― Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through It

“discovery of gold and silver in America, the extirpation, enslavement and entombment in mines of the aboriginal population, the beginning of the conquest and looting of the East Indies, the turning of Africa into a warren for the commercial hunting of black-skins, signalized the rosy dawn of the era of capitalist production”
― Jack Weatherford, Indian Givers: How the Indians of the Americas Transformed the World

“The industrial revolution did not begin in villages such as Kahl, in the workshops of skilled urban craftsmen, or even in the factories of Manchester and Liverpool—it began in the mines and on the plantations of America.”
― Jack Weatherford, Indian Givers: How the Indians of the Americas Transformed the World