Human beings need to belong to a tradition and equally need to know about the world in which they find themselves..

There are many female gods recognized and honored by the tribes and Nations. Femaleness was highly valued, both respected and feared, and all social ….

The root of oppression is the loss of memory..

For the American Indian, the ability of all creatures to share in the process of ongoing creation makes all things sacred..

We are the land. To the best of my understanding, that is the fundamental idea that permeates American Indian life..

Healing the self means committing ourselves to a wholehearted willingness to be what and how we are-beings frail and fragile, strong and passionate, ….

In the Native American tradition... a man, if he's a mature adult, nurtures life. He does rituals that will help things grow, he helps raise the kids….

Snowflakes, leaves, humans, plants, raindrops, stars, molecules, microscopic entities all come in communities. The singular cannot in reality exist..

Truth, acceptance of the truth, is a shattering experience. It shatters the binding shroud of culture trance. It rips apart smugness, arrogance, supe….

The hoop dancer dances within what encircles him, demonstrating how the people live in motion within the circling spirals of time and space. They are….

Idealization of a group is a natural consequence of separation from the group; in other words, it is a by-product of alienation..

The shadows cannot speak..

In the native world, major gods come in trios, duos, and groups. It is the habit of non-natives to discover the supreme being, the one and only head ….

Indians think it is important to remember, while Americans believe it is important to forget..

English is, from my point of view as an Americanist, an ethnicity. And English literature should be studied in Comparative Literature. And American l….

Medicine people are truly citizens of two worlds, and those who continue to walk the path of medicine power learn to keep their balance in both the o….

Some feminist critics debate whether we take our meaning and sense of self from language and in that process become phallocentric ourselves, or if th….

An odd thing occurs in the minds of Americans when Indian civilization in mentioned: little or nothing..

I am not especially defined by my sex life, nor complete without it..

Hoop Dancer is a rendering of my understanding of the process by which one enters into timelessness -- that place where one is whole..

... America has amnesia. ... Certainly, there is a passion for memory loss in American thought. ... Americans may be the world champion forgetters..