You know, people speak in poetry all the time. They just don't realize it.

Nervous means you want to play. Scared means you don't want to play.

If you're good at it, and you love it, and it helps you navigate the river of the world, then it can't be wrong.

Sometimes it's called passing out and sometimes it's just pretending to be asleep

He looked into the crowd for approval, saw his mother and father. He waved and they waved back. Smiles and Indian teeth. They were both drunk. Everything familiar and welcome. Everything beautiful.

It's a weird thing. Reservations were meant to be prisons, you know? Indians were supposed to move onto reservations and die. We were supposed to disappear. But somehow or another, Indians have forgotten the reservations were meant to be death camps.

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.