Portrayal of Kateri
Tekakwitha by Julie Daniels (Mohawk), New York, 1993
"She`s an Indian woman
and she`s just like any of us. And she, she`s still around, she`s not gone ... We can`t
see her with our eyes but we can feel her, you know. We can feel her presence and she
understands. That`s how blessed she is, that the Lord himself showed us how blessed she
was when she died in her dying bed. She had no scars and nothing anymore. She was just
beautiful. So she became a saint then, right there and then she was a saint."