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Green grass, running water is a 1993 novel by thomas king, a writer of cherokee and greekgermanamerican descent, and united states and canadian. The creation story of green grass running water is a compilation of mutiple creation stories. Author speaks about his book the inconvenient indian duration. Green grass, running water is the story of five blackfoot indians whose existences connect in ways that are at once coincidental, comical and cosmic. Thomas king is an awardwinning novelist, short story writer, scriptwriter and photographer. Harpercollstrong, sassy women and hardluck, hardheaded men, all searching for the middle. As florence stratton argues, kings major concern in green grass, running water is with the ways and means of resistance to the mechanisms of colonial power 91 through bordercrossing. How thomas king uses coyote in his novel green grass. Ethnic identity in thomas kings green grass, running water. Lionel red dog is a disaffected blackfoot on the eve of his 40th birthday.
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