didn't end up reading a lot of native writers until i got into my mfa program at the institute of american indian art. [smith] is there something about native writers that is particular, your mind? would you or would we, as non-native readers, say, be able to see, in native writing so ithing that would caout? [orange] no more than black writing would include black experience or chinese writing would include chinese experience. it's only categorized a certain way because it's different than what the dominant-- [smith] characters, story, setting. [orange] yeah. it's great writing. the settings might be different and the characters' lives might be different. what literature can do and what novels n do that i love is that, no matter who the reader is, you can live through an experience toand come to understand a and understand a people better, no matter what people that might be. [smith] and if you create amazing characters i mean i love orville redfeather, there are a lot of characters in this book, like iabout a dozen we follow, i'm partial to orville redfeather, you can find aspects of yourself in the