The book is structured with three specific sections titled: “Distances,” “Evolution,” and “Crazy Horse Dreams.” “Fancydancing”, from which Alexie derives his title, refers to the ritualistic tribal dances through which major elements of the history and tradition of Native Americans are communicated. These traditional dances are performed in elaborate costumes decorated with the feathers of rare birds and with ornaments …show more content…
Simon, in a talk with Thomas when they are both drinking, contends that Point A is where a person is and Point B is where that person ought to be: If Point A, for example, is drunk, Point B is drunker. As Thomas stands in the cold talking about this idea, Simon comes weaving down the road in his car, jumps the curb, plows through a shrub, and parks directly behind Mary Song’s vehicle. Mary screams at him, telling him to get his truck away from her vehicle. He agrees, backing his truck all the way down the street until he hits a utility pole and disrupts electrical service. As sparks fly, “crawling along the grass like blind snakes,” Simon observes that “electricity is just lightning pretending to be permanent,” a line that accurately describes the relationship that Native Americans have to nature, using it freely and often in their literature and