"The power of imagination, of image, which is the fundamental power of literature, is the power to determine a people’…"

"The planet, our mother, Grandmother Earth, is physical and therefore a spiritual, mental, and emotional being. Planet…"

"Can we, as scholars and teachers facing the twenty-first century, fail to realize that "something there is that does …"

"In America, law substitutes for custom. In America, society substitutes for love of family, comrade, village, or trib…"

"The Indian way includes ample room for vision translated into meaningful action and custom and thought, and it is bec…"

"The community is the greatest threat to the American Individual Ethic; and it is the community that must be punished …"

"There is a widespread belief that we, Native American and nonnative alike, have nothing to celebrate. All too many be…"

"I am Laguna, woman of the lake, daughter of the dawn, sunrise, kurena. I can see the light making the world anew. It …"

"When I was small, my mother often told me that animals, insects, and plants are to be treated with the kind of respec…"

"Timelessness—that place where one is whole."