Tulalip, From My Heart Quotes

“I remember my father said there is a time for mourning, for weeping for the people who have died, but you must not allow yourself to be absolutely broken down.”
― Harriette Shelton Dover, Tulalip, from My Heart: An Autobiographical Account of a Reservation Community

“Every morning they watched the daybreak coming over the mountains. And I am telling you, young people, do that some time. Get up at three o’clock in the morning and watch the daybreak come. Even in a place like this you see the morning star, and it moves up really fast, but years back when I was growing up, my father would wake me up and over on Whidbey Island would want me and all of us young people to watch the day come, watch the day come over the Cascade Mountains. It is a very beautiful, majestic sight.”
― Harriette Shelton Dover, Tulalip, from My Heart: An Autobiographical Account of a Reservation Community

“I think white people tended to feel Chicanos or Mexicans were foreigners. They are not foreigners any more than white Americans are.”
― Harriette Shelton Dover, Tulalip, from My Heart: An Autobiographical Account of a Reservation Community