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Title: Indian History Within Narratored Stories
Review: The novel gives us two levels of story. One is narrated by a teenage boy, Tecumseh. The other is a reflection on Indian history. The narrator's name should give the reader a clue. The Cherokees who show up for "Indian Days" (also July 1, Canada Day) are all real characters who lived through the Indian removals we know as "the trail of tears." In Bright Water, they stay at the "Happy Trails Trailer Park." The figure of Monroe Swimmer evokes both President Monroe who initiated the removals policy, and nineteenth-century Cherokee medicine man, Swimmer. Monroe Swimmer is an artist who paints the white men out of the landscape; literally a reversal of Indian removals, with the Indian artist being an active agent this time. There's lots more going on; Geronimo and Truth or Consequences NM and General Nelson Miles for instance. See a forthcoming article in "Canadian Literature" by Robin Ridington for lots more.
