Haley Newlin’s Reviews > The Only Good Indians > Status Update

“you come at a reservation girl, bring a box of Band-Aids”

“You could have taken them at any point…but that’s not even close to what they deserve. They need to feel what you felt. Their whole world has to be torn from their belly, shoved into a shallow hole.”

Cassidy thinks 10 years of revoked hunting privileges has to be enough punishment for killing 9 elk on the elders part of the reserve

- it isn’t

“Nobody ever dies in a sweat. Not even the elders.”

But the elk entity lingers close by

“The only good Indian is a dead Indian”

Sweat lodge - sacred dome structure, made from natural materials like saplings, used for spiritual purification, healing, and community bonding

“…she’ll rise again years and years later, because it’s never over, it’s always just beginning again.”

SWEAT LODGE MASSACRE

I like how SGJ didn’t sell us entirely on Lewis’s theories but instead made us squirm knowing this was going too far too fast

“Death is too easy. Better to make every moment of the rest of a person’s life agony.”