My Name Is Sherman J. Alexie Jr.,

Most Of My Heroes Are Just Decent People. Decency Is Rare And Underrated.

Indians Have No Monopoly On Environmentalism. That's One Of The Great Myths. But We Were Subsistence Livers. They're Two Different Things. Environmentalism Is A Conscious Choice And Subsistence Is The Absence Of Choice. We Had To Use Everything To Survive. And Now That We've Been Assimilated And Colonized And We Have Luxuries And Excesses, We're Just As Wasteful As Other People.

Poetry = Anger X Imagination

There Have Been Players With Indian Heritage, But There Hasn't Been A Native-american Professional Basketball Player Who Became A Regular For All Sorts Of Social And Political Reasons.

Ialways Think It's Funny When Indians Celebrate Thanksgiving. I Mean, Sure, The Indians And Pilgrims Were Best Friends During The First Thanksgiving, But A Few Years Later, The Pilgrims Were Shooting Indians. So I'm Never Quite Sure Why We Eat Turkey Like Everybody Else. (101)