#simon ortiz

[estrellasrojas]

“Indian people know history is lived in the time and moment it is taking place. History is in the moment. History is not the past. Nor is it the future. And you ask questions so you will know history is taking place. You live history therefore. And with our questions, that is the history we are living.”

—Simon Ortiz, “Haah-ah, mah-eemah: Yes, it’s the very truth,” Questions and Swords: Folktales of the Zapatista Revolution (2001)

[slayingholofernes]

“Tomorrow’s dawn is a promise that will fulfill.

Never mind if the sky does not quite agree.”

- Simon Ortiz, Acoma poet, "The Promise We Live By" from After and Before the Lightning.

[whentherewerebicycles]

Simon Ortiz, From Sand Creek

[peoniepoetals]

The universe / sings in quiet meditation.

Simon Ortiz, in “Culture and the Universe” from Out There Somewhere

[leeandlow]

"The People Shall Continue" by Simon J. Ortiz Returns to Print

“The People Shall Continue” by Simon J. Ortiz Returns to Print

Lee & Low Books is thrilled to share that we will be bringing back to print The People Shall Continue, Simon J. Ortiz’s beloved children’s book tracing the history of Native and Indigenous people in North America. The book will be released in paperback in October 2017 in a new 40th Anniversary Special Edition, with updated illustrations and a new forward by the author. (more…)

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[peoniepoetals]

Two nights ago in the canyon darkness, only the half-moon and stars, only mere men.

Simon Ortiz, in “Culture and the Universe” from Out There Somewhere

[whentherewerebicycles]

Simon Ortiz, From Sand Creek

[peoniepoetals]

We are measured / by vastness beyond ourselves.

Simon Ortiz, in “Culture and the Universe” from Out There Somewhere