I was a controversial figure on my reservation when I was a kid. I was mouthy and opinionated and arrogant. Nothing has changed.
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What kind of life can you have in a house without books?
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The form I most enjoy writing is the sonnet or sonnet-like forms, where you have a - you know, three stanzas or two stanzas that lead into a concluding couplet.
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White Americans have a short memory.
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My career means, if you're a non-Indian writing about Indians, at least there's one Indian in your rearview mirror.
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You'd never know it from reading the rest of the Native writers, but Indians actually grew up with American pop culture.
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