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To receive this award from an organization I admire so much makes me totally happy and grateful.
Nobody would take checks from Indians, nobody would give them any credit, and nobody would let them drink in the bars. There was a rudeness, a... →
Before, Indian people had been so defeated, they were always looking for outsiders, for the government, to somehow come in and fix things. But now... →
In a lot of Indian societies, spirituality has been lost, I think it's still the best way of looking at the world for Indians - better than any... →
The title of the poems was The Only Bar in Dixon. We sent it out to The New Yorker on a fluke, and they took them and printed all three in the same... →
The townspeople outside the reservations had a very superior attitude toward Indians, which was kind of funny, because they weren't very wealthy;... →
I am definitely a storyteller, but probably not a traditional Storyteller.
My poems were just kind of all over the place. They had no focus, no location, nothing. Kind of a series of images that could have been set anywhere.... →
I wander around, get the lay of the land and try to imagine what kind of people would have lived there in that historical period. What would they... →
Richard Hugo taught me that anyone with a desire to write, an ear for language and a bit of imagination could become a writer. He also, in a way... →
I do believe in the viability of Indian spiritualism.
I think ethnic and regional labels are insulting to writers and really put restrictions on them. People don't think your work is quite as... →
I wrote a lot in study hall to while away the hours.
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