Laguna Pueblo reservation post World War II.
Characters:
Tayo - protagonist of the story an Indian-American military veteran representation of the Sun Father.
Auntie - Tayo’s religious aunt.
Betoni - Indian and Mexican medicine man.
Josiah - Tayo’s uncle and father figure.
Rocky - Tayo’s cousin brother dies in the war.
Harley - Tayo’s friend.
Grandma - Tayo’s blind old grandmother.
Nightswan - Josiah's Mexican mistress.Quotes:
“They thought this magic could give life to plants and animals they didn't know it was all just a trick.”
This quote talks about the Indian mind set of white supremacy; and how the Indians were so eager to grasp at this white culture. A culture that came in and told them that their ideas were wrong and primitive; yet the Indian was so quick to abandon their cultural values for success in this new white world that they lost sight of what was true and healthy and good for them - they were tricked.
“The problem was the books were written by white people who did not think about droughts or winter blizzards or dry thistles with the cattle had to live in. . .”
This quote explains the rift between the Indians in the white people. The Indians live and thought in the world of all of the of the Nate the nature in the world and I lived their lives accordingly. The white people only thought of business and money and they didn't think about the blizzards or the stencils are the tryouts that the cat that the cattle had to live in for example
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