This Place Quotes

“They’re scared. They think we will rise up and do to them what they have done to us. They’d rather poison all the water, make all the land sick, and kill every plant and animal to keep that from happening.”
― Chelsea Vowel, This Place: 150 Years Retold

“You want to keep reading comics about justice, or you want to come fight for justice?”
― Niigaanwewidam James Sinclair, This Place: 150 Years Retold

“As I was reading, I thought a lot about the idea of apocalypse, or the end of the world as we know it. Indigenous writers have pointed out that, as indigenous people, we all live in a post-apocalyptic world. The world as we knew it ended the moment colonialism started to creep across these lands. But we have continued to tell our stories; we have continued to adapt. Despite everything, we have survived.”
― Alicia Elliott, This Place: 150 Years Retold

“Laugh at their ignorance if you will, but they make a mockery of our respectability. I don’t trust the lot of them.”
― Katherena Vermette, This Place: 150 Years Retold

“Competition, I can handle. Swindling and treachery, I would rather do without.”
― Katherena Vermette, This Place: 150 Years Retold

“This is what happens when you disrespect the women of Red River.”
― Katherena Vermette, This Place: 150 Years Retold

“You aren’t taking any more of our children.”
― Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm, This Place: 150 Years Retold

“But just because stories are unwritten for a time, it doesn’t mean they’ll be unwritten forever. And just because stories don’t get written down, it doesn’t mean they’re ever lost. We carry them in our minds, our hearts, our very bones. We honour them by passing them on, letting them live on in others, too. — foreword by Alicia Elliott”
― Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm, This Place: 150 Years Retold