We don't go to Fort Chicago,” said Ta-Kumsaw. "We go to the holy place.”
"A church?” asked Alvin.
Ta-Kumsaw laughed. "You White people, when you make a place holy you build walls so nothing of the land can get in. Your god is nothing and nowhere, so you build a church with nothing alive inside, a church that could be anywhere, it doesn't matter-nothing and nowhere.”
"Well what does make a place holy?” asked Alvin.
"Because that's where the Red man talks to the land, and the land answers.