![]() No one should have to experience that." Yet, I don't think I truly understand. I can hear of some atrocity happening on the reserve or in the residential schools and say and mean, "That's terrible. Even when I read or hear true stories, despite a real desire to understand, I think I am protected by that personal detachment. Interested yes, but with a certain amount of objective distance. I am a white woman and when I read aboriginal fiction, it is, I think, like a someone looking on or in, examining. ![]() But what was strikingly authentic, crystal clear and true were the stories shared by the participants. We are in a sweat lodge afterall the steam and glow from the grandfathers wafts and shimmers throughout the book. That is not to say that the book was lacking in spirituality and native culture. Oh he might have been in there, but I didn't notice if he was. ![]() Well having read all 85 pages of this book, I didn't notice any trickster. ![]() I have this idea that when I figure out the role this character plays, the better I will understand native culture and spirituality. ![]() I usually find it challenging I'm always grappling with that trickster dude. ![]()
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