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.

There's the concept that dreams are as important - if not more important - than reality. The attention that one pays to those things in the shadows is very much a part of the Indian experience.

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

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.

I believe truly that Canada is a living history and we're going through some of the most important time in this country's short 150 years.

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.