![]() ![]() Once there, he places the bullets into pairs of socks and swings them into the bushes behind the metal detector. Tony buys them at a Walmart in Oakland, puts them in his backpack, and rides his bike to the coliseum. ![]() ![]() They are packed in boxes of sixteen and stored in a warehouse in California for seven years. The bullets come from the Black Hills Ammunition Plant in South Dakota. The tragedy will be how long Native people have fought for recognition, only to die at their own gathering. When the bullets come, they will be almost expected. At the same time, it is expected in the same way that death is. No one at the Powwow expects gun violence-shootings happen somewhere else, to other people. White men also gave Natives their last names to keep track of them. Descendants of colonizers say Natives should “get over it” without realizing that they benefit from the violent deeds of their ancestors. Now, Indians have survived, but it is not resilience, not a badge of honor. ![]() Blood matters: it used to define their “Indianness” to the colonizers. Their mix of white and Native blood varies. Every kind of Indian, from cities, reservations, and everything in between, travel to the Oakland Powwow because it is one of the last places where they can be together. First, the narrator explains the far-reaching phenomenon of a Powwow. The first section of Interlude is in essay format, like the opening prologue. ![]()
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