6/26/2023 0 Comments There there novel![]() ![]() He attends the Big Oakland Powwow for his film project, setting up a storytelling booth. The film, a project about Native life and experience in Oakland, takes Dene on a storytelling journey throughout the novel, meeting other characters as he interviews them for the film. He narrates several chapters, beginning with his application for grant funding for a film project inherited from his uncle, Lucas. Dene OxendeneÄene is a primary character in the novel. ![]() At the same time, he has an emotional side, confessing to and even hugging several characters after getting drunk. He is a large, threatening-looking character, who is volatile and often threatens violence. He runs a drug ring in Oakland that Tony and Calvin have both been involved in. Octavio is a secondary character but the mastermind behind the plan to rob the Big Oakland Powwow. She is old now and has a broken hip, so Tony has to help take care of her, too. She provides emotional support to him and asks him to read Louise Erdrich to her. Tony's job is to wear his old Indian regalia and enter the Powwow with bullets. He sells drugs for Octavio, who comes up with a plan to rob the Oakland Powwow. His mother is in jail and his father doesn't know he exists. He lives with an old woman, Maxine, whom he loves very much and takes care of after she breaks her hip. He is a 21-one-year old man affected by fetal alcohol syndrome, or what he calls the Drome. Tony's is the first voice to speak in the novel after the Prologue. ![]()
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