60 Quotes by Joseph Bruchac

It is not hard work, because all work together... what one hand finds hard to lift is lighter than a feather when many lift together.

I wish you had been there with me in that picture,” he used to say to Wilsie and me. “It is so lonely being there forever without another Indian.

This,” I said, “could be the start of a beautiful friendship.

So it was that five days later, on the 22nd of March, I walked with Samoset back into my own village. Once Patuxet, now it was Plymouth. I looked around me. Though much was changed, I knew that I at last had returned to the land of my home.

I’ve had a lifelong fascination with bears. Their gentleness and their strength has always touched something deep in me.

Like most of those who seek to harm the weak, he’s a coward at heart.

My story is both strange and true. I was born in the year the English call 1590. My family were leaders of the Patuxet people and I, too, was raised to lead. But in 1614 I was taken to Spain against my will. Now it is 1621 and I am again in my homeland. My name is Squanto. I would like to tell you my tale.

Perhaps this creature had once been a human, but his lust for power had been so great that he had done the things needed to transform him into a monster bear.

He’s taken courses on things like animal tracking, making a fire with a bow drill, building survival shelters in the forest. Now, my being an Indian, you might imagine I would know about all that stuff. But most Indian kids, even those on the rez, are not learning those things anymore. They’re too busy doing all the things other kids do – watching DVDs, playing Xbox games, and downloading rap music on their iPods.