Occupation: Poet Birth: October 24, 1939 Death: May 29, 2008
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 hoop dancer dances within what encircles him, demonstrating how the people live in motion within the circling spirals of time and space. They are….
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….
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….
As long as we avoid the creative, we are condemned to reaction..
True shamans live in a world that is alive with what is to rationalist sight unseen, a world pulsing with intelligence..
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….
An odd thing occurs in the minds of Americans when Indian civilization in mentioned: little or nothing..
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….
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….
... America has amnesia. ... Certainly, there is a passion for memory loss in American thought. ... Americans may be the world champion forgetters..