“More recently, our home has become the legal possession of strangers.  We have been restricted from approaching our places of power and spirit.  We have become mute witnesses while others despoil the air, the land, the wildlife, the rivers, and the ocean waters.  It is said that Kwaw created this world for original native people, not for wanderers.  But it is the wanderers who have brought a different rule, saying that our ancient laws are of no value.  This may be one of the reasons why we are in a spiritual quandary:  not knowing how to become a functioning part of the invading American society, not remembering how to sustain a strict connection with the “knowing” that is our origin – and trembling in the presence of both." Source: Surviving Through the Days,  A California Indian Reader, Translations of Native California Stories and Songs. Edited by Herbert W. Luthin