From this oppressed and tragic history and the struggle of adopting and refusing the European American culture, unintentionally a new culture of duality prevailed. In the start of the novel, both Nanapush and Pauline’s narrations are set on one way of life, either the Native American storytelling, deerskin cloths, and open wigwams, or the European American way of modernization, westernization, and civilization. Yet, by conclusion they both discern the partial assimilation and that a balance of both cultures is the only way the tribe will remain. This solution- or rather subconscious necessity- of cultural duality is exhibited in Nanapush, Pauline, and Fleur. Their journeys in this time of disjointed identity and threat to what is known highlights …show more content…
There are two names documented for just one tribe, the Ojibwe and the Chippewa. There are two nations and ethnicities occupying a single (formerly barren) land during the 18th century, the Anishinaabeg and the United States. There are two distinct strategies of dismantling the original Ojibwe social structure and tribal lifestyle which were then combined and used to form one method of ultimate ruin, separation and assimilation. Two cultures, both from different lands, different people, different principles and beliefs, very different ways. These both had the possibility to thrive separately in different lands with different people and different lives, but the false notion that there was only ability and opportunity for one culture in this “New World” (already occupied once found by settlers) caused the cultures to clash and fight and eventually merge in unexpected ways. Yet the fight continued, two cultures believed that only one could thrive and therefore, there was only one culture in the end dismantling the other culture readers got to know intimately in the important novel