“Every Native North American text I've ever grappled with has taught me something important about how to live on the continent where I was born.” ImportantNative Author:Robert Bringhurst
“In the native literatures of North America there aren't any novels. Instead, the major genre is myth. And myths are stories that are fundamentally about the world, not about human individuals. A myth needn't include any humans at all. If it does include them, they're usually minor characters - imaginary humans sent out like scouts to report back on what's happening in the mythworld, but not central participants in the action.” WorldCharacterActionLiteratureIndividualNovelMythNativeImaginary Author:Robert Bringhurst
“The first function of violence in Native American literatures is simply to acknowledge that violence is implicit, like gravity and sunlight, in the world and our relations with the world.” WorldLiteratureViolenceRelationAcknowledgeNativeSunlightNative AmericanAmerican Literature Author:Robert Bringhurst
