Our heads are on flags, jerseys, and coins.
All the way from the top of Canada, the top of Alaska, down to the bottom of South America, Indians were removed, then reduced to a feathered image. We’ve been defined by everyone else and continue to be slandered despite easy-to-look-up-on-the-internet facts about the realities of our histories and current state as a people. In the prologue, Orange writes about the way Native people are so often depicted as disembodied heads-as a test pattern on televisions, on coins, as mascots: Orange does the heavy-lifting of educating a reader before the story, instead of awkwardly stuffing his words into his characters’ mouths.
Its brilliant prologue allows Orange to relay historical context and social commentary to the reader before he writes about 12 individuals who subtly, and in varying ways, embody the points from his prologue. Tommy Orange’s There There is a phenomenal book that follows 12 Native Americans in the lead up to a powwow.
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