Our literature is in great shape.

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I wrote a lot in study hall to while away the hours.

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I do believe in the viability of Indian spiritualism.

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I am definitely a storyteller, but probably not a traditional Storyteller.

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To receive this award from an organization I admire so much makes me totally happy and grateful.

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I think ethnic and regional labels are insulting to writers and really put restrictions on them. People don't think your work is quite as universal.

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The title of the poems was The Only Bar in Dixon. We sent it out to The New Yorker on a fluke, and they took them and printed all three in the same issue.

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I used to object to being called an Indian writer, and would always say I was a writer who happened to be an Indian, and who happened to write about Indians.

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In a lot of Indian societies, spirituality has been lost, I think it's still the best way of looking at the world for Indians - better than any organized religion in this country.

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The townspeople outside the reservations had a very superior attitude toward Indians, which was kind of funny, because they weren't very wealthy; they were on the fringes of society themselves.

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