My mother told me stories all the time... And in all of those stories she told me who I was, who I was supposed to be, whom I came from, and who wo….

As long as we avoid the creative, we are condemned to reaction..

What the Indians are saying is that they are recognizing the right of wilderness to be wilderness. Wilderness is not an extension of human need or of….

Humor is widely used by Indians to deal with life. Indian gatherings are marked by laughter and jokes, many directed at the horrors of history, at th….

The Indians used to be the only inhabitants of the Americas, but times change. Having perceived us as belonging to history, they are free to emote ov….

It's a little-known linguistic curiosity that the name Jehovah or Jaweh is the same name as Eve; Havva, the counterpart name in Farsi, the language s….

Breath is life, and the intermingling of breaths is the purpose of good living. This is in essence the great principle on which all productive living….

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 ….

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….

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

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

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….

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

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

The root of oppression is the loss of memory..

America does not seem to remember that it derived its wealth, its values, its food, much of its medicine, and a large part of its "dream" from Native….

In America, law substitutes for custom..

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