I Can Make This Promise Quotes

“Landscape artists have been getting it wrong for years, for generations. But the American West has never been an empty wilderness. It has always had people and architecture, civilizations and traditions. If you want to draw these landscapes, Edie, please do it right by recognizing how full they are. Find the beauty others have missed, and show it the way only someone like you can.”
― Christine Day, I Can Make This Promise

“In the documentary Reel Injun (2009), Sacheen candidly reflects on her experience at the Oscars, and the impact this speech had on her life and career.”
― Christine Day, I Can Make This Promise

“father took me out to the Seafair Powwow in Discovery Park.” Their gazes meet, and both of my parents seem to soften. They’re still so in love, it actually disgusts me sometimes. “I’d never been to a powwow before,” she says. “But he didn’t know that. We were still just getting to know each other. And although he knew I was Native American, he didn’t know much about the adoption, or my general disconnection”
― Christine Day, I Can Make This Promise