Frankly, from the way I have been treated by the so-called 'civilized' people in my life, I rather look forward to residency among the savages. (42)

Mah daddy felt that his fust duty was to stay home and protect his family and his property from the vicious rape and pillage for which the Yankee army was so infamous. And so Daddy sent two of his best buck niggahs to fight in his stead. Course, straightaway they run off to join the Union, like all niggah'sll do given the very fust opportunity. (66)

When he [Little Wolf] came back in at last he was trailed by a sickly coyote; everyone in camp saw it and everyone remarked upon it — although only we white women seemed to consider this to be a particularly bizarre sight. We are beginning to realize that the savages' world has even a different corporeality than ours...