Green Grass Running Water

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individuals" to "fall asleep," sit "virtually in each other's laps," and enter into a private "conversation." Indirectly her lecture touches upon an important religious celebration of the Native American culture, the Sun Dance. She depicts the Sun Dance, which celebrates the creation of earth and all of its components, as a trivial and meaningless component of her people's culture. Even though she portrays such a momentous occasion as inconsequential, its inclusion in her lecture is an unconscious admission to herself of how her own desire for inner peace can be realized through this cultural celebration. Alberta closes her lecture by wishing her class a good long weekend, then departs for "home."
Alberta is discontent with her relationships and herself. She is dating two men, Lionel and Charlie. When either starts "talking commitment," or begins "hinting about spending more time together," she avoids them for "two or three weekends in a row." Alberta's reaction to her ...

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in need of self-redemption, but also for the well being of family, community, planet and life in general.

Lionel is a Native American who "had made only three mistakes in his entire life, the kinds of mistakes that seem small enough at the time, but somehow get out of hand. The kinds that stay with you for a long time. And he could name each one." Throughout his life, Lionel allows these simple yet powerful mistakes to govern himself and his opinions. Each mistake demonstrates how Lionel has always denied his own self by trying to become someone he isn't. The first mistake occurred when he agreed that he "must be the lucky young man who won the free plane ride." Rather ...

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