The poetry writing was very important to me. It was a way of trying to define who I was in an environment that felt foreign. I realize now that writi… - Linda Hogan

I never wanted to be a writer, either, but I suppose we each find a calling and fall into it.

community lies beyond family within the surrounding, enfolding environment. We are co-creators in the universe, the world, within all the rest, all fluid, shifting movement, and without the emphasis on measurement. The world is there in its entirety, not in segments. And we inhabit it. This is what makes us human.

For Native peoples, our systems of knowledge are not about beliefs but about ways of knowing and how we know, through experience itself. It is not what is taught in books, not in ordinary classes, but what lies beneath all the new ideas.