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8 pages in length. The purpose and importance of the trickster in Thomas King's Green Grass, Running Water is to parody the conventional – and more often than not wholly inaccurate – literary portrayal of Native Americans. That King's approach is saturated with a scathing wittiness alongside a biting reality speaks to the need for a close re-evaluation of why Indian lore and storytelling became so fallacious over the centuries. No additional sources cited.
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Native Americans. That Kings approach is saturated with a scathing wittiness alongside a biting reality speaks to the need for a close re-evaluation of why Indian lore and storytelling
became so fallacious over the centuries. A great deal of Kings motivation for employing tricksters in Green Grass, Running Water is to ridicule such alleged historical accounts as James Fenimore
Coopers The Last of the Mohicans, seeking to challenge and chastise the concepts of racial superiority and cultural construct. Utilizing several tricksters, King undermines the conventional Native American portrayal
by way of creating characters and situations that are very familiar to, for example, Coopers characters and situations, yet they are twisted into such satirical opposition that one cannot help
but understand the implied travesty. The contrary approaches of stereotypical and reductive knowledge that Kings Green Grass, Running Water and virtually every other
book on the market addresses the vastly creative way in which to illustrate an intense understanding of Native American culture. That Kings approach is decidedly humorous in application with
the addition of trickster Coyote and Old Woman does not take away from the deeper message of awareness he exhibits with regard to harsh stereotypical realities. The introduction, effect and
capacity of these tricksters serve to demarcate the stereotypical nature of Native Indian history. Moreover, Kings tricksters illustrate the manner by which Native Americans work to live in harmony
with nature and the environment around them. The Old Woman, for example, is introduced as the water goddess and co-creator of the world, a capacity and subsequent effect that
provides a strong basis for Kings quest to present Native Americans as those who seek out healing and acceptance to combat what physical, emotional and spiritual ills Puritanism imposed upon
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