1. John Langston Gwaltney, Drylongso: A Self-Portrait of Black America (New York: Vintage, 1980), 100.

2. Mary Black-Rogers, "Ojibwa Power Interactions: Creating Contexts for 'Respectful Talk,'" in Native North American Interaction Patterns, ed. Regna Darnell and Michael K. Foster (Hull, Quebec: Canadian Museum of Civilization/National Museums of Canada, 1988), 48.

3. Ibid., 49.

4. Gwaltney, Drylongso, xix.