Do you know why the Indian rain dances always worked? Because the Indians would keep dancing until it rained.

Those Montana Indians were so tough that white people were scared of them. Can you imagine a place where white people are scared of Indians and not the other way around? That's Montana.

When you read a piece of writing that you admire, send a note of thanks to the author.

I recognize now that the conditions that Indians are living in are the conditions that poor people everywhere are living in.

Let us now celebrate the literary allusion.

Well, as a native, as a colonized people you do live in the in between. The thing is I'm native. But necessarily because I'm a member of the country, I'm also a White American.

I used to sleep with my books in piles all over my bed and sometimes they were the only thing keeping me warm and always the only thing keeping me alive. Books are the best and worst defense.