An odd thing occurs in the minds of Americans when Indian civilization in mentioned: little or nothing.

Idealization of a group is a natural consequence of separation from the group; in other words, it is a by-product of alienation.

Snowflakes, leaves, humans, plants, raindrops, stars, molecules, microscopic entities all come in communities. The singular cannot in reality exist.

Hoop Dancer is a rendering of my understanding of the process by which one enters into timelessness -- that place where one is whole.

I am not especially defined by my sex life, nor complete without it.

My mother told me stories all the time... And in all of those stories she told me who I was, who I was supposed to be, whom I came from, and who would follow me... That's what she said and what she showed me in the things she did and the way she lives.

In the native world, major gods come in trios, duos, and groups. It is the habit of non-natives to discover the supreme being, the one and only head god, a habit lent to them by monotheism.