Guilt can make you doubt yourself at the very moment when you need to proceed with certainty.

Kill every enemy twice, Wilky said. Better than gettin' shot by a soldier pretending to be dead.

There is a kind of certainty that seems to characterize Jared Smith's best work, an understanding about place and the flow of spirit that makes you think of Thoreau along with a commitment as fierce as that of Pablo Neruda.

As long as we can remember them, our families will always be with us.

Strong words outlast the paper they are written upon.

We need to walk to know sacred places, those around us and those within. We need to walk to remember the songs.

When the Lakota leader Sitting Bull was asked by a white reporter why his people loved and respected him, Sitting Bull replied by asking if it was not true that among white people a man is respected because he has many horses, many houses? When the reporter replied that was indeed true, Sitting Bull then said that his people respected him because he kept nothing for himself.