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.

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.

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

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

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

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.