Fort Marion as a Narative thread in Thomas Kings Green Grass Running Water
Thomas King’s post-colonial novel Green Grass Running Water indicates the importance of Natives’ traditional culture. ... As a narrative strand Fort Marion allows King to contrast the imperial consciousness with Native ideals, the past with the present, and to explore the idea of circular progress. First introduced partnered with a rather blatant allusion to The Garden of Eden, Fort Marion is seen as a beautiful place through Dr. ... Joe Hove believes his evangelist/realtor great-grandfather purchased Fort Marion’s land in 1876-- off of a now extinct local tribe (95-96): Custer and the colony lost the battle of Little Big Horn in 1876 causing a massive offensive against the Indians; thus, it is hard to take at full value Dr. Joe Hovaugh’s creation story of Fort Marion. Through genocide in 19th Century Fort Marion, King introduces an extreme view of the loss of Indian identity: the loss of an entire tribe.