The history needs to serve the story, not the story the history. But at the same time you can't stray too far.
Joseph BoydenThe world is a different place in this new century, [...]. And we are a different people. My visions still come but no one listens any longer to what they tell us, what they warn us. I knew even as a young woman that destruction bred on the horizon. [...] War touches everyone, and windigos spring from the earth.
Joseph BoydenI'm intrigued by the classic Greek tragedies, as well as by the idea of the Greek chorus.
Joseph BoydenThere'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.
Joseph Boyden