The Beads
When June's father and grandmother delivered her to Marie, fresh from wandering the woods alone and eating tree sap to survive, she was wearing rosary beads as a necklace—and she refused to take...
Water
Water is definitely a symbol for life in this book, rushing along and changing shape much as the characters' lives do. How do we know this is water's function in the novel? Well, the characters the...
Dead Indians
In Nector Kashpaw's experience, a good portion of non-Native Americans seemed to be fascinated with images of dead and dying Native Americans—and he wanted no part in contributing to such represe...