Case Quote by Jhumpa Lahiri

Fascinating, often hilarious, always devastatingly truthful, The Inconvenient Indian is destined to become a classic of historical narrative. For those who wish to better…

— Joseph Boyden

“The Indians did not like to see anything odd -- a white squirrel, for instance. . . . They thought such oddities were messages,…

— Karen Joy Fowler

You'd never know it from reading the rest of the Native writers, but Indians actually grew up with American pop culture.

— Sherman Alexie

Indians are marvelous storytellers. In some ways, that oral tradition is stronger than the written tradition.

— N. Scott Momaday

“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

We need to give out portrayal of ourselves. Every non-Indian writer writes about 1860 to 1890 pretty much, and there is no non-Indian writer…

— Chris Eyre

Mythology works... because Indians have been bred on myths.

— Ashwin Sanghi

Any direct experience that I have with indigenous peoples and their plights may feed into the nature of the story I choose to tell.…

— James Cameron

My mother was a children's librarian. I remember when traditional stories were revised for modern audiences until they bore only a nodding acquaintance with…

— Patricia Briggs

The Indian story has never been written. Maybe I am the man to do it.

— Zane Grey

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

— Arundhati Roy

For a subject worked and reworked so often in novels, motion pictures, and television, American Indians remain probably the least understood and most misunderstood…

— John F. Kennedy