Alone on the Hilltop
“We call ourselves Ikce Wicasa–the natural humans, the free, wild, common people…”
No matter how much I hated it I had to face up to the fact that I would have to earn some money. I was like many other fullbloods. I didn’t want a steady job not because I was stuck up but simply because any human being is too good for that kind of a no-life, even white people.
I trained myself to need and want as little as could be so that I wouldn’t have to work except when I felt like it. That way I got along fine with plenty of spare time to think, to ask, to learn, to listen, to count coup on the girls.
“Indians chase the vision, white men chase the dollar.”
“The real vision has to come out of your own juices.”
