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We Americans are tempted to distinguish ourselves from other current and former inhabitants of this planet by assuming that we are ruled by progress.

Michael Dorris

Here are two facts that should not both be true:
- There is sufficient food produced in the world every year to feed every human being on the planet.
- Nearly 800 million people literally go hungry every day, with more than a third of the earth's population — 2 billion men and women — malnourished one way or another, according to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization.

Michael Dorris

The necessity of loyalty between friends, the responsibility that the strong owe the infirm, the illusion of ill-gotten gain, the rewards of hard work, honesty, and trust-these are enduring truths glimpsed and judged first through the imagination, first through art.

Michael Dorris

Michael Dorris

Michael Dorris

Born: January 30, 1945

Died: April 10, 1997 (aged 52)

Bio: Michael Anthony Dorris was an American novelist and scholar who was the first Chair of the Native American Studies program at Dartmouth. His works include the memoir, The Broken Cord and the novel, A Yellow Raft in Blue Water.

Known for:

A Yellow Raft in Blue Water (1987)
Morning Girl (1992)
Broken Cord (1989)
Sees Behind Trees (1996)
The Crown of Columbus (1991)

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