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Brief History of Estelle Walks Above
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"The Life and Times of Estelle Walks Above"
By: Avery Keller & JC Rainey
Assimilation
Story Structure
- Estelle leaves rez to go to a white college
- Becomes a guru to group of white women
- Tries desperately to fit in to white culture
- changes last name to "Walks Above" to sound more indian to the white women
Summary
Throughout the story, there are interjections of random information, jokes, etc. that are not directly related at all to what is going on at the moment. This gives the writing a stream of consciousness feel, but it's more akin to the stream of consciousness of someone with ADHD. Just like his upbringing, It is all over the place and unstructured.
"The Life and Times of Estelle Walks Above" compared to Native American History
- Setting: Seattle, Summer of 1976
- Narrated by unnamed 13-year-old native american boy
- Mother, Estelle Walks Above, is seen as a feminist guru to a following of white women
- Sexual topics are discussed constantly
- Grows up to become engaged to a liberal white woman, has an affair with a crow indian woman, marries her, and she fathers their twins
- Estelle Walks Above is soon abandoned by her followers, they go one to do greater things, and she is left to teach at community college
- She gives up her old lifestyle for a more socially acceptable one
"The Life and Times of Estelle Walks Above" tells the story of a Native American mother who is seen as a feminist guru in her community. She has a following of white women who worship the ground she walks on. Eventually the women give up their lifestyle and go on to do great and big things, one goes on to sit on the city council and another wins an emmy. They all forget about Estelle. This can be directly correlated to White America's treatment of Native Americans.