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"THEY ARE NOT SUPPOSED TO GET RUN OVER AND KILLED BY A DRUNK DRIVER" pg 158

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"I was important to them. I mattered." pg 212

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"I have to prove that I will never give up...never quit living life hard" pg 187

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"I hope that, twenty years in the future, they'd be comparing some kid to me", 182

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"Over night I became a good player...they expected me to be good" pg 180

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"I used to think the world was broken into tribes"

"It all gave me hope" pg 176

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"We Indians have lost everything"' PG 173

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"Ever since I have been at Reardan...I realize that my folks are pretty good" pg 153

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" a bullet only costs 2 cents, and anybody can afford that"
pg 14

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"I belonged to that tribe...that's when I knew I was going to be okay".

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"It gave me hope", pg176

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"Two thousand Indians laughed at the same time" pg 166

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"We knew how to laugh" pg 166

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"I realized that...I was not alone in my loneliness", pg217

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"Then, as one, they all turned their backs on me". Pg 144

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"Who has the most hope?...White people". pg 45

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"Located approx...two billion miles from happy"
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"We could see our entire world...green, golden and perfect".
"The reservation is beautiful". Pg 219

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“I was half Indian in one place and half white in the other . . . It was like being Indian was my job, but it was only a part-time job. And it didn’t pay well at all.”

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"We Indians were the worst of times and those Reardan kids were the best of times" pg 50

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"I have to go. I'm going to die if I don't leave" pg 52

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“Well, life is a constant struggle between being an individual and being a member of the community.”

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“I know, I know, but some Indians think you have to act white to make your life better. Some Indians think you become white if you try to make your life better, if you become successful.”

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“You’ve been fighting since you were born . . . You fought off that brain surgery. You fought off those seizures . . . You kept your hope. And now, you have to take your hope and go somewhere where other people have hope.”

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“Seriously, I know my mother and father had their dreams when they were kids. They dreamed about being something other than poor, but they never got the chance to be anything because nobody paid attention to their dreams.”

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"I mean you have to leave the rez forever", pg 42

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"The only things you kids are taught is to give up", pg42

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"You've been fighting since you were born", pg 43

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"You were supposed to kill the Indian to save the child" pg 35

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"It sucks to feel that you somehow deserve to be poor" pg 13

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"I draw because I want to talk to the world". Pg 6

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"You are going to find more and more hope the farther and farther you walk away from this sad, sad, sad reservation" pg 43

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"I was born with water on the brain". Pg 1

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"Our white dentist believed that Indians only felt half as much pain as white people did" Pg 2