The world is a different place in this new century, [. . . ]. And we are a … - Joseph Boyden

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One trick, known as the journey method or 'memory palace,' is to conjure up a familiar space in the mind's eye, and then populate it with images of whatever it is you want to remember.

Joseph Boyden

The world is a different place in this new century, [. . . ]. And we are a different people. My visions still come but no one listens any longer to what they tell us, what they warn us. I knew even as a young woman that destruction bred on the horizon. [. . . ] War touches everyone, and windigos spring from the earth.

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When I die, nieces, I want to be cremated, my ashes taken up in a bush plane and sprinkled onto the people in town below. Let them think my body is snowflakes, sticking in their hair and on their shoulders like dandruff.

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The history needs to serve the story, not the story the history. But at the same time you can't stray too far.

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People will say that Canada, unlike America, was not birthed from violence. But I want to say, "What are you talking about?" It's just not true.

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There's the concept that dreams are as important - if not more important - than reality. The attention that one pays to those things in the shadows is very much a part of the Indian experience.

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I'm a writer. I should be allowed to speak about my writing at times. And I'm really excited to speak about that. There's nothing I am shameful of or anything else in my novels. They are my children and I'm happy to speak about my children.

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