Smoke Signals: Native Cinema Rising

List of Illustrations

Illustrations 1. An old Western playing on the tv in Suzy Song’s trailer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 2. John Trudell as dj Randy Peone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 3. Thomas Builds-the-Fire’s portable radio . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 4. Lester FallsApart’s van . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 5. Victor gives half of his father’s ashes to Thomas . . . . . . . . 51 6. Thomas telling a story to Velma and Lucy. . . . . . . . . . . . 62 7. Thomas assesses his audience while telling a story . . . . . . 62 8. Thomas makes fry bread for his grandmother . . . . . . . . 68 9. Thomas tries to follow Victor’s instructions . . . . . . . . . . 68 10. The burning house . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 11. The Evergreen Stage Lines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94 12. A bird’s-eye view of Arnold Joseph’s yellow truck . . . . . . 94 13. An imposing small-town Western sheriff. . . . . . . . . . . . 98 14. Thomas, intimidated by the sheriff’s office . . . . . . . . . . 98 15. Arnold Joseph finds Young Thomas at the bridge . . . . . . 108 16. The Spokane River . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110 17. Victor Joseph on the bridge in the film’s closing sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110 18. Arlene Joseph divides a piece of fry bread . . . . . . . . . . 121 19. Young Thomas and Young Victor examine a sparkler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146 20. Cufe in his father’s pickup truck . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146 ...