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This country was a lot better off when the Indians were running it.

Vine Deloria, Jr.

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Deloria, Vine, Jr. "This Country Was a Lot Better Off When the Indians Were Running It." The New York Times, 8 Mar. 1970.

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Censorship of any form punishes curiosity.

Sherman Alexie

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Alexie, Sherman. "Sherman Alexie: The Value of Subverting Authority." Guernica, 5 Oct. 2012.

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Loneliness is an aspect of the land. All things in the plain are isolate; there is no confusion of objects in the eye, but one hill or one tree or one man. To look upon that landscape in the early morning, with the sun at your back, is to lose the sense of proportion. Your imagination comes to life, and this, you think, is where Creation was begun.

N. Scott Momaday

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Momaday, Navarre Scott. The Way to Rainy Mountain. University of New Mexico Press, 1969, introduction. Originally appeared in The Reporter, 26 Jan. 1967.

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I never feel spiritual anywhere except in the presence of my own stories.

Sherman Alexie

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Alexie, Sherman. Interviewed by Diane Thiel. Crossroads: The Journal of the Poetry Society of America, Spring 2004.

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