Jamake Highwater Quotes

Among the language of the American Indians, there is no word for 'art' ... For Indians, everything is art ... therefore needs no name.

What dance achieves, what play and sex achieve are the same thing that poetry achieves. They transform the ordinary into the extraordinary.

Dance has been transformed from an involuntary motor discharge, a ceremonial rite, into a work of art, conscious of, intended for, observation.

For Indians, images are a means of celebrating mystery and not a manner of explaining it