Blue Winds Dancing
The narrator in "Blue Winds Dancing," by Tom Whitecloud, talks about the day he comes home to his Indian community from college. The narrator is making his journey home for Christmas break. He explains the differences between the community which he lives in at school and the Indian community he is going home to. When the narrator gets home, he feels out of place. He is not sure if everyone is even going to remember him from before. As he is walking down the railroad tracks he talks about how peaceful he feels with the snow and the forest surrounding him, and the reason that the railroad tracks were put there. The city came about because of the surrounding lake. He also talks about how the city, around the Indian community, has people who don't even know each other and how it takes away from the country around it. It has all the stores, the police, the criminals, the movies, and the apartment houses. He continues to talk about how it also has the politics, the libraries, and the zoos. He makes it seem like the only reason that these things are there is because of the city and they otherwise wouldn't be there.
Christmas in his village is not about the parties and the presents but about being together and sharing together. At this point the narrator has realized that nothing has changed. In the lodge, there are many Indians. When the narrator gets closer he begins to feel out of place. He then finds himself in his father's arms crying out of happiness to be home. The drums begin to beat again, and I catch the invitation in the eyes of the old men. He feels like he is among people that he has never seen before in his life. " The narrator walks into his house to see that his father, brother, and sister are waiting for him to arrive. His father then tells him to go on to the lodge alone and the rest of them will follow. The music stops and the people dancing move towards the outside of the room. This is weird for him because he has spent the last several months among white people, and now being with people that don't talk as much is different.
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