FEMST 40 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: List Of River City Characters, Dowsing, Michael Horse
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Fem 40 notes- women, representation, and cultural production. Am. land seen as unproductive: belle graycloud: beekeeper, moses greycloud: rancher, michael horse: water diviner; added boo kto bible (the book of horse, stacey red hawk: investigator (native american fb); came to investigate numerous native american deaths. American/other people"s culture within the u. s. nola kills him at end of novel: events of the novel based on actual murders that took place; names of murderers are real names used by author. John hale, marty green, walter burge- real killers. John tate: married to moses graycloud"s sister, ruth; had one eye and was a photographer; symbolizes museums & archaeological digs- take away other people"s culture & put them in museums; kills moses" sister, moses kills him. One eye symbolizes only seeing artifacts to be put in/appropriated for museums instead of appreciating the culture; don"t know if he is white, no description (only person in novel)
