![]() ![]() There are 7 million ways to be a good Indian. ![]() JONES: I wanted to interrogate what it means to even be a good Indian in 2020, you know? Does it mean, you know, subscribing old ways? Does it mean adopting other ways? How do you navigate the world when success in one arena is failure in another? And turns out, there's not a single way to be a good Indian. I began by asking Stephen Graham Jones about the title, why he wanted to explore the idea of good Indians. SHAPIRO: Jones is a member of the Blackfeet Nation, and in this book, a group of friends violates a tradition on the reservation and a vengeful spirit haunts them to the bloody end. ![]() But it was kind of the bumper sticker that would have been on horses if horses had bumper stickers back then. STEPHEN GRAHAM JONES: The only good Indians are dead Indians from - you know, as ascribed to Teddy Roosevelt back in the 19th century. Stephen Graham Jones writes horror novels, and his latest starts with a provocative reworking of an old saying. ![]()
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