My mother is Turtle Mountain Chippewa, and she lived on her home reservation. My father taught there. He had just been discharged from the Air Force. He went to school on the GI Bill and got his teaching credentials. He is adventurous - he worked his way through Alaska at age seventeen and paid for his living expenses by winning at the poker table.
More Quotes by Louise Erdrich
I was in love with the whole world and all that lived in its rainy arms.
Love won't be tampered with, love won't go away. Push it to one side and it creeps to the other.
You know, some people fall right through the hole in their lives. It's invisible, but they come to it after time, never knowing where.
Revenge is a sorrow for the person who has to take it on. And the person who is rash enough to think it's going to help a situation is always wrong.
On any state elections map, the reservations are blue places. Native people are most often progressives, Democrats, and by no means gun-toting vigilantes.
Here I am, where I ought to be. A writer must have a place where he or she feels this, a place to love and be irritated with.