Excerpt #4

"The old man shook his head. 'That is the trickery of the witchcraft,' he said. 'They want us to believe all evil resides with shite people. Then we will look no further to see what is really happening. They want us to separate ourselves from white people, to be ignorant and helpless as we watch our own destruction. But white people are only tools that the witchery manipulates; and I tell you, we can deal with white people, with their machines and their beliefs. We can because we invented white people; it was Indian witchery that made white people in the first place.'"

Silko, Leslie Marmon. Ceremony. New York: Penguin Group, 1977.
p. 122