“Because America has an idea of what it means to be Native, anytime anything I’m writing reflects that I feel like I’m cosplaying Indigenousness. So I wrote that fear into the book.”
“That’s a Mohawk woman for you, she’s going to dance with you one moment and deck you the next.”
“In the book version everyone in the family has a copy of the picture of Tóta dancing. In reality, that picture was buried with her.”
“I don’t need my art in the world to change the world, I create art to change myself.”
Aaron John Curtis 