I can relate to this book and I feel that every single Native American should read this book. It really encompasses and brings so many fears and doubts to light. How can one be happy when they are fooling around with a woman, and then she finds out one is native american, and she screams and faints. How much can that damage who one is, how does one recover? how do you fight against a world that thinks you are inferior and 'repulsive'? A world that does not want you around. All the native americans felt american when they went to war, they were treated somewhat equally. It was like a dream for them. And they drank away their culture and who they were. I can really relate to Rocky because he is learning to be 'white' he is going to school, he is learning, he believes more in the books of the scientists than that of his own family. I am exactly the same. I want to belong. I try to live my life and forget my culture. I am studying because that is how you win in the 'white man's world.' , but it means for many sacrificing their culture. I wonder if this is worth it. This Native American predicament that we are learning about and is still occurring has really opend my eyes to how tragic it all really is.
It's frustrating to look back on how Native Americans and even African Americans fought for their country and weren't even treated with respect. I've read that soldiers of all colors even white bonded over time because of the war when they were overseas but once they all went back home, everyone was treated like they were before the war because the civilians still were in that mindset of inequality and segregation.
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