Charbonneau Quotes

“None of them are willing to see themselves or others simply as what they are. All is colored with myth, with the ideal. Everyone is a figure in a cosmic drama—an imaginary drama.”
― Win Blevins, Charbonneau: Man of Two Dreams

“1832: The Illinois militia effectively ended the Black Hawk War with the massacre of Black Hawk’s tribe, including women, children, and old men.”
― Win Blevins, Charbonneau: Man of Two Dreams

“1850: The Shoshones began to distinguish between “Americans,” whom they liked as good friends, and “Mormons,” whom they did not like.”
― Win Blevins, Charbonneau: Man of Two Dreams

“We will speak of what we must do concerning the Frenchman, who now comes as many as the locusts—who drinks the water, burns the wood, and kills the buffalo of our hunting grounds, so that the Shoshone people may one day have not enough to eat.”
― Win Blevins, Charbonneau: Man of Two Dreams

“what we must do concerning the Frenchman, who now comes as many as the locusts—who drinks the water, burns the wood, and kills the buffalo of our hunting grounds, so that the Shoshone people may one day have not enough to eat.”
― Win Blevins, Charbonneau: Man of Two Dreams

“The North American Indian, regarded as “backward,” has a life that makes sustenance, responsibility for oneself, and dignity possible. These backward people have no hint of the worthiness of their own persons.”
― Win Blevins, Charbonneau: Man of Two Dreams

“Baptiste and Running Stream spread their robes on a soft, grassy spot thirty feet from the fire under a sky clustered with stars thick and big as columbine in June.”
― Win Blevins, Charbonneau: Man of Two Dreams