Dead Fir over the Pacific

​The white man does not understand...America. He is too far removed from its formative processes. The roots of the tree of his life have not yet grasped the rock and the soil. The white man is still troubled with primitive fears; he still has in his consciousness the perils of this continent, some of its vastness not yet having yielded to his questing footsteps and inquiring eyes. He shudders still with the memory of the loss of his forefathers upon its scorching deserts and forbidding mountain-tops. The man from Europe is still a foreigner and an alien...Men must be born and reborn to belong. Their bodies must be formed of the dust of their forefathers bones. ~ Luther Standing Bear