Four Souls.

I thought it was a very interesting book. Something that really interested me was narrative portions of Nanapush. It's difficult for me to know how I feel about him. Sometimes, especially when telling Fleur's story, he seems like a very wise man, a paragon of wisdom. At other times he acts like a fool. Especially in his relation with Margaret, he seems childish. He has this incredible grudge against this blind old man that appears rather harmless. His narration also made me wonder how much the story is supposed to bear into reality. He describes many mystical things that don't make much sense events that involve medicine powers. It makes me wonder what genre is this book? I know it is fiction, but should we go so far to believe that it is a fictional tale in a real world? Or a fictional tale in a fictional world? Just a few thoughts.

Another part that is on my mind is the whole dress. A dress with healing powers, born from a vision caused by Nanapush's malice. Made by parts untouched by the white man and therefore given great healing powers. These all have bigger themes riding on them, I'm not sure what to make of it. The idea that something completely untouched by the white man has power of healing can mean a number of things. That white man hurt, that culture heals, that nature heals. This separation from white men and healing is weird coming from a woman who is probably sewing on a linoleum floor.