Fast Cars And Frybread Analysis
In Gordon Johnson’s collection of essays, Fast Cars and Frybread, he shows the evolution of Native American’s culture. What is more interesting is the blending of cultures that we know many years ago with the European Americans and the Native Americans. Johnson shows a lot of comparison between these two cultures. First, he emphasizes the feeling of these cultures to being “otherness” to the white colonists. For example, in his essay, A Hawk’s Cry, a Dusty Saddle, and Memories, he describes about his buddy Jimmy Balcone’s aunt as living with “no electricity, no refrigeration, no TV, not even a dog” (Johnson 11). It is implied how at first, the Native Americans generation back to Luther Standing Bear’s generation lives like this without technology;