![]() ![]() ![]() Victor has a frightening vision of his grandmother, and throws the mushrooms in the lake. Junior and Victor send Thomas away when he compares their drug use to a Spokane coming-of-age ritual. In the first, Victor steals a horse in the second, Thomas sends all white people back to Europe using a magic dance and in the third, Junior is a successful singing cowboy in an alternate United States governed by Indigenous people. ![]() Each young man describes his drug-induced hallucinations, all of which involve alternate versions of events from Spokane and Indigenous history. Victor and Junior Polatkin sneak away from a party to take psychedelic mushrooms, and reluctantly bring Thomas Builds-the-Fire along. In this story, Victor and his friends are young adults. A hurricane touches down on the reservation but causes little damage, and life goes on. ![]() Victor reflects on the many difficult times he has had in childhood as a result of his parents’ poverty and alcoholism. The guests are drunk and rowdy, and his uncles Adolph and Arnold fistfight in the yard. In 1976, nine-year-old Victor Joseph listens to his parents’ New Year’s Eve party as he tries to sleep in his room. ![]()
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