"You must understand how these horrible times have been for the Diné folks. By tradition, this place has been our home, the Dinétah, where the First People came up to the Fourth World upon the rising of the Great Water."
"There are six holy mountains on the land of the Dinétah, four that mark the corners of our world. That is where we are meant to be. The world was so, before the coming of the outsiders, the bilagáana."
"Our dealings with the bilagáana have always brought us sorrow. Your people drove us from the Mountain of the East. Your people put us on the Hwéeldi - the deathwalk - a hundred and fifty years ago. We were marched three hundred miles, and placed in a camp beside our enemy, the Mescalero Apache. Brother Howard Gorman said - "our ancestors were taken captive and driven to Hwéeldi for no reason at all. They were harmless people, and, even to date, we are the same, holding no harm for anybody...Many Navajos who know our history and the story of Hwéeldi say the same." After six years, we had dwindled to less than ten percent of our population surviving. We were allowed to return home. Many clans became extinct."
"The bilagáana always see what needs to be, and ask, "Why, why, why?" But when they see things that do not need to be, they never ask."
"And we have endured. We have been good Americans - great Americans. Almost every Navajo male has served his country in military service. Navajos are buried in many foreign lands, under the US flag. We are harmless people - we are helpful people. We are a selfless and loyal people. Perhaps this has brought us much harm."
"The bilagáana have again brought the curse by deviltry in their deep laboratories, making poison near our homes in Arizona, and once again, the Navajo population is blighted, nearly destroyed. Most of our family and friends are gone. We, too, are gathering to survive this plague brought on by the bilagáana."
"You may wish to call out and say, "It was not me who brought this evil, it was others. We have suffered too." These great evils did not spring from the Diné, but from those outside. You are from Outside. It is we who came to the Yellow World to this place. You did not come from the Yellow World to this place. You, from Outside – why did you not ask why, when your people created this Evil? Who should be held to account?
"And we, too, dream, and talk of the dreams, and what we see. We see the call by good Mother Abagail to her home, and to the Free Zone.
"We also see that the great plague has freed many evil spirits from their evil bodies, and brought forth a great Witch."
"What does God do with the evil that a man has done? Some say he takes their spirit up, with good and bad, and allows for redemption in the next life. Some say he makes them all-good and brings them to heaven. Or they are all-bad and sends them to Hell. Does that sound sensible, true Christianity? Would not God bring forth the good that lives in a man, leaving off the husk of evil to stay behind?"
"Navajo believe that the husk of sin and injustice is shed when a man dies; and when many men dies, the world becomes a sea of these little evil wisps, these chindi. When they whirl about, they gather like a whirl of fire above the bonfire, and bring forth creatures of great evil. This great evil in the death of millions created this great witch that is your Dark Man, your Hardcase. You have brought it forth by your bad science, your own guilt. The evil he embodies is all the evil of your people from Outside. The sins that made him strong were not the sins of the Diné."