Wolfsong Summary And Analysis
Native Americans have obtained most of their understanding from studying their surroundings such as, nature. Wolfsong gives the idea of how turning to nature, the environment, can help retrieve an identity when what remains of the past are only remains:
“He [Tom] stared at the white mountain, the center, the great mother, and tried to feel what it had meant to his tribe. They had woven it over thousands of years into their stories, telling themselves who they were and would always be in relation to the beautiful peak. Through their relationship with the mountain, they knew they were significant, a people to reckoned with upon the earth. Away in four directions the world streamed, and Dakobed was the center, a reference point for existence.
“He [Tom] stared at the white mountain, the center, the great mother, and tried to feel what it had meant to his tribe. They had woven it over thousands of years into their stories, telling themselves who they were and would always be in relation to the beautiful peak. Through their relationship with the mountain, they knew they were significant, a people to reckoned with upon the earth. Away in four directions the world streamed, and Dakobed was the center, a reference point for existence.