Occupation: Poet Birth: October 24, 1939 Death: May 29, 2008
Indians think it is important to remember, while Americans believe it is important to forget..
Idealization of a group is a natural consequence of separation from the group; in other words, it is a by-product of alienation..
English is, from my point of view as an Americanist, an ethnicity. And English literature should be studied in Comparative Literature. And American l….
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….
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….
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….
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….
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….