"(Would you say that Native nations are, on the whole, gaining a larger role in American society in the last few gener…"

"How can a nation founded on the homelands of dispossessed Indigenous peoples be the world's most exemplary democracy?…"

"American democracy arose from the dispossession of American Indians. If history provides the common soil for a nation…"

"Identifying American history as a site of genocide complicates a fundamental premise of the American story. Indeed, h…"

"American Indians were central to every century of U.S. historical development."

"In the dry places, men begin to dream. Where the rivers run sand, there is something in man that begins to flow. West…"

"The wilderness begins at the edge of my body, at the edge of my consciousness, and extends to the edge of the univers…"

"I had always been aware that the Universe is sad; everything in it, animate or inanimate, the wild creatures, the sto…"

"This is not a man who sits down to "write a poem"; rather, some burden of understanding and feeling, some need to kno…"

"Poetry is everywhere; it just needs editing."