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I am much more in love with the right angles of buildings.
Mary,
She is the prettiest and strongest and funniest person who ever spent twenty-three hours a day alone in a basement.
Haha sad
Mr. P
It was like some kind of prison-work farm for our liberal, white, vegetarian do-gooders and conservative, white missionary saviors.
Haha racism
Haha
for some reason I don’t understand, lonely white people love to hang around lonelier Indians.
Haha sad
I was staring at a geometry book that was at least thirty years older than I was. I couldn’t believe it. How horrible is that?
Nice metaphor. But sad.
That silence got so big and real that it felt like three people sat on the porch.
He smiled mysteriously. Adults are so good at smiling mysteriously. Do they go to college for that?
Haha
He was going to punish me now. He couldn’t beat me up with his old man fists, but he could hurt me with his old man words.
We were supposed to kill the Indian to save the child.”
Sad racism
We weren’t trying to kill Indian people. We were trying to kill Indian culture.”
“Lots of people—mostly women—love them,”
Haha
We just sit there quietly and watch the games. My dad doesn’t even cheer for his favorite teams or players. He doesn’t react much to the games at all.
I suppose he is depressed. I suppose my sister is depressed. I suppose the whole family is depressed.
“She could still write a book,” I said. “There’s always time to change your life.” I almost gagged when I said that.
Haha sad
“I want you to say that you deserve better.” I couldn’t say it. It wasn’t true. I mean, I wanted to have it better, but I didn’t deserve it.
Every white person on this rez should get smashed in the face.
Haha racism
All the Indians should get smashed in the face, too.”
“The only thing you kids are being taught is ...
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I could smell his breath. Onions and garlic and hamburger and shame and pain.
I’d never seen a sober adult cry.
Haha
Jeez, it was a lot of pressure to put on a kid. I was carrying the burden of my race, you know? I was going to get a bad back from it.
Haha
You kept your hope. And now, you have to take your hope and go somewhere where other people have hope.”
“You’re going to find more and more hope the farther and farther you walk away from this sad, sad, sad reservation.”
Love the satellite dish
Haha
Reardan,”
DWI: Driving While Indian.
Haharqcism
Yep, it was that easy with my parents. It was almost like they’d been waiting for me to ask them if I could go to Reardan, like they were psychics or something.
Ewww
Can you imagine what would have happened to me if I’d turned around and gone back to the rez school?
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Indians don’t dese...
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Haha
Haha
Mr. Grant
Haha - I"ll bet
“You read a book for the story, for each of its words,” Gordy said, “and you draw your cartoons for the story, for each of the words and images. And, yeah, you need to take that seriously, but you should also read and draw because really good books and cartoons give you a boner.”
a metaphorical boner
“Boner is funnier. And more joyful.”
In Wellpinit, I was a freak because I loved books.
In Reardan, I was a joyous freak.
And my sister, she was a trav...
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Of course, ever since white people showed up and brought along their Christianity and their fears of eccentricity, Indians have gradually lost all of their tolerance.
Another reason the book has been banned
