I was a controversial figure on my reservation when I was a kid. I was mouthy and opinionated and arrogant. Nothing has changed.
You'd never know it from reading the rest of the Native writers, but Indians actually grew up with American pop culture.
My career means, if you're a non-Indian writing about Indians, at least there's one Indian in your rearview mirror.
White Americans have a short memory.
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.