Religious fundamentalists are unaware that freedom of religion necessarily brings with it the freedom to mock religion.

There have been players with Indian heritage, but there hasn't been a Native-American professional basketball player who became a regular for all sorts of social and political reasons.

That's one more thing people don't know about Indians: We love to talk dirty.

Reardan is the rich white farm town that sits in the wheat fields exactly 22 miles away from the Rez. And it's a hick town I suppose filled with farmers and rednecks and racists cops who stop every Indian that drives through. During one week when I was little dad got stopped three times for DWI- Driving While Indian.

Writing is a lonely business.

There are all kinds of addicts, I guess. We all have pain. And we all look for ways to make the pain go away. (107)

We Indians really should be better liars, considering how often we've been lied to.