It would be better if they had more reading lessons, definitely. Even if the children were encouraged by some other member of the education set-up - it doesn't have to be a qualified teacher.

Anyone who reads, even one from the remote Southwest at the far end of an attenuated tradition, is to some extent a citizen of the world, and I had been a hungry reader all my life.

I have often reflected upon the new vistas that reading has opened to me. I knew right there in prison that reading had changed forever the course of my life. As I see it today, the ability to read awoke inside me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.

My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

I want to teach them how to read to children. It's really very different from reading to yourself.

I think a reading of the statute supports that it has to pay something for on-reservation children.