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• I wrote a lot in study hall to while away the hours.
• The title of the poems was The Only Bar in Dixon. We sent it out to The New Yorker on a fluke,…
• Nobody would take checks from Indians, nobody would give them any credit, and nobody would let them drink in the bars. There…
• I do believe in the viability of Indian spiritualism.
• I used to object to being called an Indian writer, and would always say I was a writer who happened to be…
• I am definitely a storyteller, but probably not a traditional Storyteller.
• I wander around, get the lay of the land and try to imagine what kind of people would have lived there in…
• Richard Hugo taught me that anyone with a desire to write, an ear for language and a bit of imagination could become…
• To receive this award from an organization I admire so much makes me totally happy and grateful.
• Our literature is in great shape.
• My poems were just kind of all over the place. They had no focus, no location, nothing. Kind of a series of…
• Before, Indian people had been so defeated, they were always looking for outsiders, for the government, to somehow come in and fix…

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