# Quote — Leslie Marmon Silko, Almanac of the Dead

> The ancestors had called Europeans “the orphan people” and had noted that as with orphans taken in by selfish or coldhearted clanspeople, few Europeans had remained whole. They failed to recognize the earth was their mother. Europeans were like their first parents, Adam and Eve, wandering aimlessly because the insane God who had sired them had abandoned them. (Part Two, Book One: Reign of Death-Eye Dog)

- Author: [Leslie Marmon Silko](https://www.leafyquotes.com/leslie-marmon-silko.md)
- Book: [Almanac of the Dead](https://www.leafyquotes.com/leslie-marmon-silko/almanac-of-the-dead.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Leslie_Marmon_Silko#Almanac_of_the_Dead_(1991)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/leslie-marmon-silko/almanac-of-the-dead/the-ancestors-had

## More from this book

> The white man had violated the Mother Earth, and he had been stricken with the sensation of a gaping emptiness between his throat and his heart. (Part One, Book Five: The Border)

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/leslie-marmon-silko/almanac-of-the-dead/the-white-man.md)

> Earth was their mother, but her land and water could never be desecrated; blasted open and polluted by man, but never desecrated. Man only desecrated himself in such acts; puny humans could not affect the integrity of Earth. Earth always was and would ever be sacred. Mother Earth might be ravaged by the Destroyers, but she still loved the people. (Part Five, Book One: The Foes)

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/leslie-marmon-silko/almanac-of-the-dead/earth-was-their.md)

> The powers who controlled the United States didn't want the people to know their history. If the people knew their history, they would realize they must rise up. (Part Three, Book Two: Arizona)

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/leslie-marmon-silko/almanac-of-the-dead/the-powers-who.md)