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Tracks
Genre
Novel (226 pp.)
Keywords
Cross-Cultural Issues, Epidemics, Family Relationships, Native-American Experience,Power Relations, Racism, Religion, Sexuality Summary
Set in the 1920s, Tracks is the recital of the Anishinabe community in North Dakota and the struggle during land and the continuance of their oral report and beliefs that undergird the heterogeneity of their tribular society in the face of shifting U.S. policies. Told in the counterpointing voices of Nanapush, a tribular elder, and Pauline Puyat, a mixed-blood member of the community, the fresh describes the intertwining lives of Fleur Pillager, Nanapush, Pauline, and their families; the horrible losses from epidemics, being of the kind which well as the powerful love circulating mixed the community, and their resistance to cultural and national domination. While these issues occupy a great deal of of the story, Pauline’s diminish into an excessive and destructive devotional asceticism is also a central section of the plot. Pauline’s internalized racism (she "would not communicate our language" [p.14]) takes its form in her hatred of her acknowledge body and her fascination with dissolution ("I handled the dead until the cold feel of their skin was a encourage, until I no longer bothered to float once I left the cabin except touched others with the same hands, passed exit on" [p. 6]). She ends up in a cloister inventing new ways to torture herself taken in the character of she listens to Jesus tell her she is not veritably Indian. In contradistinction to Pauline are Nanapush and Fleur, who stand against dominance and claim their identities in noble ways. In one scene, Nanapush refuses to own a doctor to treat his granddaughter’s sharply frostbitten foot with amputation, knowing that "exception [her] the doctor’s way would murder [her]." Nanapush nurses her himself, economical the foot and telling her stories in the manner that a way to walk her from one side the pain of healing. Commentary

A romance that looks at the workings of internalized racism’s validity on the body and mind for the re~on that well as the power and...

Tracks

Genre Novel (226 pp.)

Keywords Cross-Cultural Issues, Epidemics, Family Relationships, Native-American

Experience,Power Relations, Racism, Religion, Sexuality

Summary Set in the 1920s, Tracks is the narrate of the Anishinabe community in North Dakota

and the struggle in quest of land and the continuance of their tradition and beliefs that

undergird the heterogeneity of their tribular society in the face of shifting U.S. policies.

Told in the counterpointing voices of Nanapush, a tribual elder, and Pauline Puyat, a

joined-blood member of the community, the story describes the intertwining lives of

Fleur Pillager, Nanapush, Pauline, and their families; the horrible losses from epidemics,

for the re~on that well as the powerful love circulating mixed the community, and their resistance to

cultural and civil domination.

While these issues occupy plenteous of the story, Pauline’s progressive emaciation into an excessive and

destructive conscientious asceticism is also a central apportionment of the plot. Pauline’s internalized

racism (she "would not exhibit our language" [p.14]) takes its form in her hatred of her

concede body and her fascination with exit ("I handled the dead until the cold feel of their

skin was a peace, until I no longer bothered to suffuse once I left the cabin unless touched

others with the same hands, passed decease on" [p. 6]). She ends up in a priory

inventing new ways to torture herself being of the cl~s who she listens to Jesus tell her she is not actually

Indian.

In contradistinction to Pauline are Nanapush and Fleur, who counteract dominance and claim

their identities in pompous ways. In one scene, Nanapush refuses to make ~ance a doctor to

treat his granddaughter’s painfully frostbitten foot with amputation, knowing that

"reservation [her] the doctor’s way would despatch [her]." Nanapush nurses her himself, frugal

the foot and telling her stories because a way to walk her end the pain of healing.

Commentary A unusual that looks at the workings of internalized racism’s purport on the body and mind

as well as the power and freedom from disease inherent in resistance, Tracks raises questions hither and thither

the helping professions’ ability (and force of ~) to help those who do not sudden the dominant

model. It also looks at lenitive, not as a problem-solving act (amputation would receive

solved the frostbite), but as a process involving people and time and imagination. An

interesting question to pose would exist to what extent could this pattern be adopted by

institutional medicine. Should it be? Why or why not? Who should have existence the agents in

healing? The uncommon is beautifully written.

Publisher Harper & Row

Edition 1988

Place

Published

New York

Annotated ~ dint of. Stanford, Ann Folwell

Date of Entry 09/18/97

Last Revised 12/12/06

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