FROM THE ARCHIVE
Jodi Rave: Why I write Native stories
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MONDAY, JUNE 24, 2002

"Somewhere, someplace, perhaps over the course of time, journalist and Pulitzer-winning novelist Edna Ferber undoubtedly wrote stories and books where she drew upon "indignation, passionate remonstrance, a sense of injustice..."

As a Native person, the same passions often fuel my pen.

But I'm also moved by compassion, a need to tell culturally and spiritually uplifting stories about the indigenous people of America. Writers are moved by a number of passions. Some aim to turn the perfect phrase. Some to inform the reader. Others to tell a good story. . ."

Get the Story:
Jodi Rave: Need to tell stories about Natives fuels pen (The Lincoln Journal Star 6/23)