"...a foot on death's road." (p. 6)

"He was not a tribal honcho, not a powwow organizer...not a member of a drum group, not a singer...not even one of those gathered at the soda machines outside the doors...because of being drunk or too much in love or just bashful...he was none of these, only Lipsha coming home." (p. 10)

"...settle her bones in the sun with us." (p. 7)

"I told them you'd make it." (p. 14)

"His real father was my stepfather. His mother is my grandmother. His half brother is my father." (p. 16)

"Chained and spread-eagled in the isolation four days." (p. 24)

"...the eagle feather hung down...dragged lower, lower until finally it touched the floor.

"In the hands of the first non-Indian who ever attached that pipe together, sky would crash to earth." (p. 35)

"Passed to Nector from his old man, Resounding Sky...smoked when...