Compared to Americans, Canadians are often more gentle in their approach to things. They're much more apologetic. There's less room for conflict..

Canada and America are very, very different. It's true that we share a language and many customs. But Americans have a very different view of the wor….

I'm intrigued by the classic Greek tragedies, as well as by the idea of the Greek chorus..

I'm a writer. I should be allowed to speak about my writing at times. And I'm really excited to speak about that. There's nothing I am shameful of or….

Sometimes, it's not getting what we want that offers us the most important Lessons.

I'm fascinated by the magic realism used by many writers. I think it goes hand-in-hand with the Indian experience. It's a very different way of viewi….

During World War I the Canadians were the shock troops. In many historical cases, Canadians have been very proficient at killing, and doing what we h….

There’s something sexy in cooking for a man who likes my food. Am I growing up?.

America seems to celebrate its more violent past, but Canada doesn't like to recognize those things. The willingness to accept the existence of viole….

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

I never want to play down to the reader. I think readers are willing to go along if they're intrigued..

From a craft standpoint, telling a story in the first-person present tense over the course of 500 pages is a daunting challenge..

As a fiction writer, of course, you need to take some leeway with certain aspects of history to make the story work..

People will say that Canada, unlike America, was not birthed from violence. But I want to say, "What are you talking about?" It's just not true..

We aren't the masters of the earth. We're the servants..

Being a mixed-blood person of Ojibway and European ancestry, I always found that I only heard one side of the story - that was the conquerers' side, ….

There were incredibly complex societies already existing in North America long before Europeans arrived. So many people think that before European co….

The history needs to serve the story, not the story the history. But at the same time you can't stray too far..

The beliefs of Native people are no less powerful or important just because they focus on a different "form of magic.".

We all fight on two fronts, the one facing the enemy, the one facing what we do to the enemy..

There's the concept that dreams are as important - if not more important - than reality. The attention that one pays to those things in the shadows i….