Indians are usually seen as capsulized: limited to one environment, with the illusion of stability in that environment. But Indians have been engaged all over the world for centuries, in Europe, even in Asia.
From Gerald Vizenor
I use not casual phrases but imagistic phrases that create a rhythm of natural presence.
The first Western teacher of English in Japan was a Native American.
Trickster stories are pleasurable, contradictory, annoying, abrasive. They're powerful, transformational acts of liberation because they are not nailed down to the real, to the representation of something in the world.
The idea of victimage is a dreadful thing, a product of a safe middle-class perspective. What people who are not safe develop is a tragic wisdom, a wisdom that embraces contradiction and seeks a sense of balance rather than going to extremes.
Naanabozho was the first tribal trickster on the earth.
There is a sense of motion and a concise, immediate image in haikus and Anishinaabe dream songs.
Even the earliest cave paintings in France and Spain had natural motion.
It's so difficult to write in motion and get rid of the past tense, and also to create a sense of impermanence.
W. P. Kinsella, who was born on a farm near Edmunton, Alberta, has earned wide recognition for his wild imagination and rash humor as a writer.
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