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Don't live up to your stereotypes.

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I don't know what any individual should do about crossing her own borders. I only know that I live a happier, more adventurous life, by crossing borders.

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I've come to the point in my life where I encourage young Native Americans to become much more selfish about their personal needs and wants.

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I was a controversial figure on my reservation when I was a kid. I was mouthy and opinionated and arrogant. Nothing has changed.

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White Americans have a short memory.

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Sixty percent of all Indians live in urban areas, but nobody's writing about them. They're really an underrepresented population, and the ironic thing is very, very few of those we call Native American writers actually grew up on reservations, and yet most of their work is about reservations.

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My only purpose is to teach children to rebel against authority figures.

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In the middle of the night, when you're ambiguously ethnic, like me, when you're brown, beige, mauve, siena, one of those lighter browns in the Crayola box. You have to be careful of the cops and robbers, because nobody's quite sure what you are, but everybody has assumptions.

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The form I most enjoy writing is the sonnet or sonnet-like forms, where you have a - you know, three stanzas or two stanzas that lead into a concluding couplet.

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My wife was the first romantic partner who understood both American and native parts of me - not so much the positive stuff, but the damage.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: October 7th, 1966

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