ᏰᎵ ᏧᏕᏘᏴᏓ ᎤᏒᎯ ᎢᎪᎯᏓ ᎣᏍᏓᏓᏅᏖᏍᎬ ᎠᎬᏱ ᎤᏩᎦᏘᏗᏒᎢ - ᎣᎩᏂᏚᎩ ᏃᎴ ᎣᎩᎾᏓᏅᏖᏗᏍᎬ, ᎣᎩᏃᎯᏳᏅ ᎣᎩᎾᏧᏙᏗᏂ ᎠᏂᏰᎵᏒ, ᎨᏍᏗ ᏯᏃᎵᎨ ᎠᏂᏴᏫ ᏱᏄᎵᏍᏔᎾ, ᎤᏂᏲᎰᏎᏗᏉ ᎠᏁᎲ.
Though Bear and I had sat up late nights for years planning the future—hoping and despairing over it, resolving to fight against it all we could—most of the people didn’t at all understand what immediate threat of losing their homeland they now lived under.