The Bone Thief Quotes

“Squaw” is an old colonist word”
― Vanessa Lillie, The Bone Thief

“They don’t have twisters in New England”
― Vanessa Lillie, The Bone Thief

“Ellis had spoken to me about needing remediation of water sources in the area. How companies use these places”
― Vanessa Lillie, The Bone Thief

“Whether we’re lying in the ground or walking above it”
― Vanessa Lillie, The Bone Thief

“Woods have never scared me”
― Vanessa Lillie, The Bone Thief

“I see my job as a chance to support tribes”
― Vanessa Lillie, The Bone Thief

“You’re the only ones who have been telling the story.” Shawna points toward the dig pit. “That’s all you’ve been doing since you murdered women and children on this very land. Then sold the rest into slavery.”
― Vanessa Lillie, The Bone Thief

“Pieces of regalia are often passed down, and even if a necklace, bracelet, or belt is new, the methods and materials can be linked back for hundreds, even thousands of years.”
― Vanessa Lillie, The Bone Thief

“That’s what “Land Back” means to leaders within tribes. To return the land, not for ownership and control as so many fear, but to bring back Indigenous practices and heal what’s been broken.”
― Vanessa Lillie, The Bone Thief