Bearheart (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Gerald R. Vizenor
- First Published: 1978
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Dystopian
- Time of Work: Future
- Setting: The central and western United States
- Genres: Long fiction, Satire, Apocalyptic and catastrophe fiction
- Subjects: Wives, Traveling or travelers, Folkloric or magical people, Mythology or myths, Prisons, Sex or sexuality, Murder or homicide, Exile or expatriates, Future, Poetry or poets, Native Americans or American Indians, Victims, Violence, Death or dying, Rulers, Trains, Witches or witchcraft, Visions, epiphanies, or revelations, Bears, Blood, End of the world, Lightning, Pilgrims or pilgrimages, Torture
- Locales: United States
Characters Discussed
Proude Cedarfair, the fourth of the Proude Cedarfairs, a shaman of mixed white and Chippewa (anishinaabe) blood. the nation’s economy has been destroyed, and the reservation agents and corrupt tribal officials are cutting the last of the Cedar Circus Reservation cedar trees. Proude leads a group of unusual pilgrims on a trek toward the vision window at Pueblo Bonito, where he believes he can lead his troupe into the fourth world.
Rosina, Proude’s wife. At the end of the journey, she comes over the desert with the sun and is identified with...
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