I want to remember what bullshit looks like when weapons of mass destruction are diagrammed out and whacko "intelligence" is delivered in an ominous way to strike fear into people and especially to pull on the idealism and zeal of the young.

There is a legacy of violence against native women that has gotten worse and worse over time.

I have brothers and was a tomboy, if that's still a designation. It wasn't a stretch for me to think and write as a 13-year-old boy - it is freeing.

To be of mixed blood is a great gift for a writer. I have one foot on tribal lands and one foot in middle-class life.

All of our actions have in their doing the seed of their undoing. ... That in her creation of her children there should be the unspeakable promise of their death, for by their birth she had created mortal beings.

Right and wrong were shades of meaning, not sides of a coin.

Be lovely and do no harm.