“Still, Indians have a way of surviving. But it’s almost like Indians can easily survive the big stuff. Mass murder, loss of language and land rights. It’s the small things that hurt the most. The white waitress who wouldn’t take an order, Tonto, the Washington Redskins.”
Sherman Alexie, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
Another. “‘Your father was always half crazy,’ my mother told me more than once. ‘And the other half was on medication.'”