Full Description
Native puppeteers from the White Earth Reservation search for the meaning of life_x000D_
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Theatre of Chance is the final novel in the series that started with Blue Ravens, and continued with Waiting for Wovoka, about a group of native puppeteers from the White Earth Reservation in Minnesota. The characters continue their adventures from the White Earth Reservation to an existential colony: the urban reservation in Minneapolis. Basile, the native elder, has become an editorial writer, and the stowaways continue their creative puppet parleys in the context of the historical moment, enduring with ironic parleys the election of Richard Nixon as president. Dummy Trout and the stowaways secure a houseboat and with the loyal mongrels return to French Portage Narrows in Lake of the Woods, the birthplace of Dummy Trout. There, for the first time in more than seventy years she whispers a few words, ending the shamanic silence of her marvelous encounters on the White Earth Reservation and in the native existential colony of Minneapolis.
Contents
Doyenne of Silence
Native Royalty
Fugitive Puppets
Mutable Nicknames
Strange Harmony
Tears of Grace
Sovereign Reader
Shamanic Silence
Silk Memories
Columbus Rumpus
Existential Colony
Gospel of Labour
Academic Skinwalker
Chance of Mercy
Hearsay ManTutelary Grace
Cultural Casualties
Hoedown Activists
Mongrels of Merit
Shame of Liberty
Salutary Nicknames
Barefoot Psychiatrist
Paraday Custody
Sue for Mockery
Jour Eternal
Funerary Mockery
Rainbow Herbicides
Native Watchwords
Trickster of Hearsay
Portage Stayaways
