And they call themselves indianarar, just so it is said. Or urinnvånarar, or service, or the american indianarar or a number of other names, for the name people use about themselves is not something a tullar.
Or, the, Tommy Orange tullar with it. He tullar with etternamna also: Orange, Brown, Black. You know the drawing? Name they had of them white because everyone had to have a etternamn and not only run with, such as “Red fjør” or “Bjørneskjold”.
the Author goes straight into the awkward questions, and where he maketh it not easy for himself.
the Result has been a group photo it will be difficult to forget, of byindianarar that basically not so much with one another to do. And what is so a “byindianar”? It wonder them on himself also.
Powwow and ambivalence
Fellesnemnaren for all we know, is that they shall, at the powwowen, where indianarar from far and near to set one another in bring suit in order to compete in dancing and music, eat, drink, and meet known and unknown. Einslags landskappleik, that is.
Some hosts it, others to dance, or drum, or be the audience. And a very nedsnødd bunch of young men to rob the money.
Slowly form a picture of how several of these people may have more in common than they idea: Very few fedrar know that they are there, and who is actually the lady any call for “grandmother”?
Our people have orderly family relations, high consumption of drugs, alcohol, and bustadadresser. They ashamed to be indianarar, they fortrengjer it, or they are proud of it. Of complex reasons, and with the deep ambivalence pulls them to the Big Oakland Powwow.
“In the fight against terrorism since 1492”
When a Norwegian reader, I think that maybe it is time with a man who can manage a little better than barely, comes the author with a hard “Interlude” where he talks directly to us, as he also makes in the preface.
He harselerer with the types who think “get over it”, or “keep up with playing the victim” and explains why. Velmeint snusfornuft bit not on the people who have had the defeat rubbed in the identity since Christofer Columbus discovered land in 1492.
Orange is clear: My role as a reader, is to try to understand, not to come with lettkjøpte advice. Tony and Edwin and Harvey and Jacquie know that your life is a single root. The question is whether they find a way to come out of it, individual or collective.
Dene, which has received government funding to document the stories of byindianarane, finds them very few have anything to tell. Indigenous identity is their språklaus. How is a native american in the city, without fjør and tipi, yes, without their own stories without understanding a word of the cheyenne language?
Fryktlaust about asfaltindianarens dilemma
This is a dark book. But ye, it’s that the book actually is, is a bright spot.
One thing is well drawn. and reports about a sticker with the text “sure you can trust the government just ask an indian!” or “In the fight against terrorism since 1492”.
A man is personskildringane and the hardcore historieforteljinga.
But what impresses me the most is that the novel goes fryktlaust into the woods of the dilemma for a modern byindianar.
having To learn about cheyennene on the net, because your parents ‘ would not know of it. To know that one confirms all sad fordommar about indianarar. To feel a bit like they completely håplause “pretendians”, and those that are not of the indigenous peoples-related, but that svermar for it. To have a proud past as it is strongly uklårt what one should do with.
Here is the ambivalence they have to powwowen, who are trying to celebrate your identity at the same time as yourselves, the event will raise that here we have a man problem, watch-guys!
And when powwowen eventually there, are all different than every one believeth, and here include the I readers. But both the figure and the readers get a bit of every think about.
Recommended further reading: “Something to devour, something to take out the”
RECOMMENDATION: 7 mursteinsromaner there never has been time to read.
Anne Cathrine Straume 2010-2019: The 10 most important Norwegian books
top Ten books set in the decade’s bookshelf.
Of Litteraturredaksjonen and Other Håker
