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Talking Indian: Reflections on Survival and Writing - Anna Lee Walters
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"Anna Lee Walters writes: "I am an American Indian, but this does not say enough to satisfy the past, the present, or future. I am a Pawnee. I am an Otoe. My husband is a Navajo. And my children are all three." Talking Indian is about words and memory: their cultural context, their power and meaning when spoken and written, their presence and absence..."
(J.L., p. 156)