He used both hands when he made the bear. Imagine a bear proceeding from the hands of God.

I have a pretty good knowledge of the Indian world by virtue of living on several different reservations and being exposed to several different cultures and languages.

Writing engenders in us certain attitudes toward language. It encourages us to take words for granted. Writing has enabled us to store vast quantities of words indefinitely. This is advantageous on the one hand but dangerous on the other. The result is that we have developed a kind of false security where language is concerned, and our sensitivity to language has deteriorated. And we have become in proportion insensitive to silence.

The landscape of the American West has to be seen to believed and has to be believed to be seen.

It's a landscape that has to be seen to be believed. And, as I say on occasion, it may have to be believed in order to be seen.

Indians are marvelous storytellers. In some ways, that oral tradition is stronger than the written tradition.

Her name is Ago, and she belonged to the last culture to evolve in North America.