-"Our culture it's an oral culture that requires listening, and remembering."
-"I have been abroad in this society, the dominating society, for two thirds of my life, and yet I am a link in a chain to the past. Because of this I shall do as they ask . I can close my eyes and I am back in the past.
I think now that maybe it was a good thing that the migration of our people to the urban area during the war years, because there amongst the million of people, we were brought to a brotherhood. We Indian people who worked in the war plants started a social group not only for the Ojibway but for the Dakota , the Arikara, the Menominee, the Gros Ventres, the Cree, the Oneida."
-"We did not own the land acre by acre as is done today, but we respected the right of all people to share in the gift given by the great being to the Anishinabe, which means us , the original people."
-"Awasasi was the storyteller , and when she placed on the heads of the children, their crying and fears were stilled"
-"Ni-bo-wi-se-gwe which means Night Flying Woman, because a tiny girl had been born during the darkness of the day. Because her name was long the child was son called Oona , for her first laughing sound."
-"Again the Kini-nik=a-nik was passed around. The people agreed the new place has been found."
-Ojibwe educator. Lived in St Paul. Originally from White Earth Ojibwe Reservation.
-"Ojibwe is an oral culture that requires two things: listening and remembering"