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Motorcycles & Sweetgrass (2010)

by Drew Hayden Taylor(Favorite Author)

4.06 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

0307398056 (ISBN13: 9780307398055)

languge

English

genre

Humor

publisher

Knopf Canada

review 1: When the handsome white stranger with the ever changing names and eye colors arrived at the Otter Lake Reserve on his 1953 Red Indian Chief motorcycle to say goodbye to the wife of the recently deceased chief and mother of the current chief his agenda wasn't clear. He had an encyclopedic knowledge of the Anishnawbe people's history which was odd for a white man but also impulsively pursued a war with the raccoons and a concerted seduction of the new chief much to the unhappiness of her son. AS events transpired his plans did not seem to be revealed but the community came to learn that their legends were more real than anyone had believed.
review 2: Since, in Drew's words, I'm a "wanabee" or "shouldabeen" Indian, and I like myths, this book was a wonderful rea... mored for me. The trickster was so beautifully described I think that I would have fallen for him too. I kept wondering why the natives thought he was so attractive since he was white, but I finally understand, that of course, he symbolizes the way the native people got sucked in by the bead traders and bible thumpers. Czech Reference: The bartender Karl was thinking "I left the Czech Republic for this?". less

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