The Wisdom of the Wintu Woman

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When we Indians kill meat, we eat it all up. When we dig roots, we make little

holes. When we build houses, we make little holes. When we burn grass for

grasshoppers, we don't ruin things. We shake down acorns and pine nuts. We don't

chop down the trees. We only use dead wood. But the white people plow up the

ground, pull down the trees, kill everything. ... the White people pay no

attention. ...How can the spirit of the earth like the White man? ... everywhere

the White man has touched it, it is sore.

 

Wintu Woman, 19th Century

 

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