Night Flying Woman Analysis

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In the second part of Night Flying Woman, Ignatia Broker starts with Oona talking about her dream. This to me brings up the importance of dreams and that meaning that they can have. Throughout this semester in almost every book we have read there is always someone having a dream. Dreams are very much a part of Native culture. When Oona tells her mom “In my dream I saw eight lodges” (Pg.77). Her mom just accepts it and does not question it. Dreams in Native culture have been used to predict the future. Which is scary considering that some of their predications have come true. If you think about it, they knew that the settlers were going to arrive and that life’s would never be the same. In my Indigenous environmental justice class in a video

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