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| Simon Pokagon (1830 - 1899), Potawatomie |
Often in the stillness of the night, when all nature seems asleep about me, there comes a gentle rapping at the door of my heart. I open it; and a voice inquires, “Pokagon, what of your people? What will their future be?” My answer is: “Mortal man has not the power to draw aside the veil of unborn time to tell the future of his race. That gift belongs of the Divine alone. But it is given to him to closely judge the future by the present, and the past.”
—Simon Pokagon (1830 - 1899), Potawatomie
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