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No Statue of Liberty ever greeted our arrival in this country...we did not, in fact, come to the Uni...

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Our nation was born in genocide when it embraced the doctrine that the original American, the Indian...

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Creationists have also changed their name ... to intelligent design theorists who study 'irreducible...

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Shit," he said. "I don't know why you're feeling sorry for yourself because you ain't had to fight a...

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They called me an Indian pig. Oh, and they called me a prairie n*****. Pretty colorful, enit?""I sup...

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I got in a fight with my girlfriend," I said. "I was just driving around, blowing off steam, you kno...

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Sherman AlexieThe Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven

Coyote, who is the creator of all of us, was sitting on his cloud the day after he created Indians. ...

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Sherman AlexieThe Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven

I'd only seen Julius play a few times, but he had that gift, that grace, those fingers like a goddam...

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Sherman AlexieThe Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven

They're all gone, my tribe is gone. Those blankets they gave us, infected with smallpox, have killed...

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Sherman AlexieThe Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven

Last night I missed two free throws which would have won the game against the best team in the state...

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Sherman AlexieThe Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven

They ravaged neither the rivers nor the forest, and if they irrigated, they took as little water as ...

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It doesn't matter who you are or where you come from or what you look like or who you love. It doesn...

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But nobody wanted to speak on the true disposition of the world. And no one wanted to hear it...The ...

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They caught up their horses and turned back. Nothing moved in that high wilderness save the wind. Th...

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In 1492, the natives discovered they were indians, discovered they lived in America, discovered they...

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Her hope was to preserve what she called The Way, to keep it alive, for that future moment when the ...

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In Indian Country,” he says, “we have a different sense of time. I’m learning and you’re learning—an...

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In our weeks of talk, movies and friendship, I watched as Wilma turned a medical ordeal into one mor...

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We have flattered ourselves by inventing proverbs of comparison in matter of blindness,--"blind as a...

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There had been no crises of incident, or marked movements of experience such as in Felipe's imaginat...

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Next time!" In what calendar are kept the records of those next times which never come?

But undying memories stood like sentinels in her breast. When the notes of doves, calling to each ot...

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Gazing around, looking up at the lofty pinnacles above, which seemed to pierce the sky, looking down...

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Consider how textbooks treat Native religions as a unitary whole. ... "These Native Americans ... be...

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Consider how textbooks treat Native religions as a unitary whole. ... "These Native Americans ... be...

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