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Rattlesnake Mesa: Stories from a Native American Childhood

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Stories from a Native American Childhood. Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes. Told by Johnny Arlee Salish.

Rattlesnake Mesa by Peter Dawson

Illustrations by Sam Sandoval Salish. U of Nebraska P, For generations Mohawk steelworkers have "boomed out" from the reservations in upstate New York and Canada to work construction sites in New York City, the Northeast, and Canada.


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Sky Dancers is set in the s, as a Mohawk child named John Cloud and his mother visit New York City, where his dad and uncle work on high cross beams on what will become the Empire State Building. John is afraid of heights, but his pride at seeing his father dance across the beams gives the boy the courage to climb an oak tree in his backyard. Sky Dancers is flawed in a number of ways.

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For one thing, Mohawks who work the high steel call themselves "steelworkers," "ironworkers," and sometimes "cloudwalkers," but not "sky dancers"; and it seems the author gave her protagonist an "Indian" name that references the story rather than the reality—"Cloud" is not a typical Mohawk surname. In Kirk's self-conscious attempt to make this an "Indian" story, the narrative is contrived "He thought he could hear the wise old tree's heart beating like a drum" and the dialogue is forced:. If you trust them, they will hold you in their embrace just as they did our ancestors who built the bridge over the Great River years ago.


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Compare this passage with Joel Monture's superior story in his excellent book of short stories, Cloudwalker Fulcrum, Here, the conversation between Virgil and his dad is much more natural. Virgil asks his dad,. We work together to be safe. Hale's artwork in Sky Dancers isn't very good, either: John Cloud leaned back against the tree trunk and felt its strength and wisdom.

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It was an old tree that had held many moons between its branches. The tree and Mother Earth and Father Sky would let him know when it was time to go higher.

And working on the high beams—and risking your life to do so—is not the same as climbing a tree.