Blue Winds
...her after his father, a Yale Law School graduate; choose to return to the Lac Du Flambeau Indian Reservation in Wisconsin. As a result, the younger Whitecloud attended various public schools, federal Indian schools, and attended two different colleges in New Mexico and California before finally getting his degree in medicine from Tulane University. It was also during this period, at the University of Redlands that he got married and contemplate taking up literature. Along the way, he tried numerous occupations including farm worker, truck driver, mechanic, boxer, and handyman before deciding on medicine (Bio. Daniel Littlefield Jr.). The story revolves around a main character that in the midst of returning home from college, strives to answer the question on how he will be treated or looked upon by his culture. Whitecloud asks a question, “Am I White, or am I Indian?” (Bluewinds Para 29). This is the main premise of doubt that the character struggles with while exploring all of the reasons that lead him there during his journey of trying to understand the differences in cultures. His feelings seem to represent that he does not fit in anywhere “We just do not seem to fit in anywhere certainly not among whites and not among the older people” (Bluewinds Para 20). That question, along with others as he travels closer and closer to home expresses his feelings in a very straightforward manner often sounding at...