Canada and America are very, very different. It's true that we share a language and many customs. But Americans have a very different view of the world.

When I die, nieces, I want to be cremated, my ashes taken up in a bush plane and sprinkled onto the people in town below. Let them think my body is snowflakes, sticking in their hair and on their shoulders like dandruff.

There were incredibly complex societies already existing in North America long before Europeans arrived. So many people think that before European contact it was just Natives huddling around a fire, waiting for civilization to come save them. But that was not the case.

I'm intrigued by the classic Greek tragedies, as well as by the idea of the Greek chorus.

Canada and America are very, very different. It's true that we share a language and many customs. But Americans have a very different view of the world.

There's a few scholars that object to how the italicized sections suggest that Native people are to take some part in the blame for how colonization occurred. But I say, "Yes they are." Not nearly as much blame as the colonizers, of course. But we are not just victims. I hate this idea that we are all just victimized and oppressed and etcetera etcetera. It's dehumanizing in its own way.

The history needs to serve the story, not the story the history. But at the same time you can't stray too far.