"On the Rez" Quotes
"On the Rez" by Ian Frazier is a poignant and insightful collection of essays exploring the daily lives, challenges, and culture of Native American communities on a reservation.
nonfiction | 336 pages | Published in NaN
Quotes
You go to the reservation, you buy a big bag of fry bread, and you eat the whole thing. Then you sit around and have a couple of beers.
The worst thing about living on the reservation is that you can't get a good pizza.
I'm not a traditionalist. But I'm not a progressive, either. I'm a traditional progressive, I guess.
My people were always great horsemen, but now we drink and live on the dole.
There's a lot of beauty on the reservation, but there's a lot of sadness too. It's like a lot of things.
Everybody's got a cousin who's a medicine man. My cousin is a real medicine man. He's got a phony degree from a mail-order outfit in Oklahoma.
There's nothing to do on the reservation but drink beer and watch TV. And the TV's broken.
The reservation is like a lousy boyfriend. You can't stand him, but you can't leave him either.
I don't want to be a poster boy for Indian country. I just want to live my life.
You can't be an Indian without being a little sad. And you can't be an Indian without laughing a lot either.
