Fascinating, often hilarious, always devastatingly truthful, The Inconvenient Indian is destined to become a classic of historical narrative. For those who wish to better understand Native peoples, it is a must read. For those who don't wish to understand, it is even more so.

America seems to celebrate its more violent past, but Canada doesn't like to recognize those things. The willingness to accept the existence of violence separates our two countries.

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.

From a craft standpoint, telling a story in the first-person present tense over the course of 500 pages is a daunting challenge.

We all fight on two fronts, the one facing the enemy, the one facing what we do to the enemy.

As a fiction writer, of course, you need to take some leeway with certain aspects of history to make the story work.

Sometimes, it's not getting what we want that offers us the most important Lessons