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“One of the many facets of Navajo culture that appeals to me is the lack of value attached to vengeance. This ‘eye for an…

— Anne Hillerman

“Tony Hillerman’s Navajoland,”

— Anne Hillerman

“I realized that, sure, I was a Spokane Indian. I belonged to that tribe. But I also belonged to the tribe of American immigrants.…

— Sherman Alexie

“Sometimes the grandest of all events are described in the poverty of a few simple words.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

My wartime experiences developing a code that utilized the Navajo language taught how important our Navajo culture is to our country. For me that…

— Chester Nez

“Most Indians' deliberate, cultivated, amoral innocence about what is happening there, what is being done in their name, becomes hard to bear.”

— Arundhati Roy

“there is nothing arrogant about mentioning ordinary people’s material concerns: the poor have the right to do it, and to talk about a readiness…

— Slavoj Žižek

“In Kinvara, poor as we were, and unstable, we at least had family nearby, people who knew us. We shared traditions and a way…

— Christina Baker Kline

I always have one or two, sometimes more, Navajo or other tribes' cultural elements in mind when I start a plot. In Thief of…

— Tony Hillerman

“Perhaps everybody, indigenous and not, lives on their own kind of reservation.”

— Sherman Alexie

“The poor have no right to love. Especially if their beloved is from a rich tribe.”

— Adil Alzarooni

“Good storytelling is one thing rural whites and Indians have in common. But native Americans have learned through harsh necessity that people who survive…

— Kathleen Norris