Marvelous Quote by 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

Indian writers have appropriated English as an Indian language, and that gives a certain freshness to the way we write.

— Vikas Swarup

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

Some Indians will come up and say that a story reminded them of something very specific to their experience. Which may or may not…

— Jhumpa Lahiri

The Indians have such strong traditions and aesthetics, and the people are beautiful, as are their goods.

— Georgina Chapman

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

— Sherman Alexie

It has seemed so strange to me that the larger culture, with its own absence of spirit and lack of attachment for the land,…

— Linda Hogan

“The task of understanding a culture built on the oral tradition is impossible to students steeped in the written tradition. p.55”

— Harold A. Innis

Each day we understand better what the Indians say, and they us, so that very often we are intelligible to each other.

— Christopher Columbus

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

I go to South Dakota for ceremonies when I have the time. And when you learn what the Indian peoples have gone through to…

— Adam Beach

It is important to tell good stories. You can tell stories even if they are not huge, epic, and wonderful. You can still take…

— Ajay Naidu