How did the men in Love Medicine lose their power and get it
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parkerlee's profile pic  Posted on (Answer #4)  Actually, they
never really did....  One common vein in this anthology is the
leit motif of disillusionment, which, etymologically speaking,
means "the state or condition of not not-seeing." A certain
ideal (blindness) is lost as the price to pay for confronting
situations as they really are instead. Focusing on how
relationships are rather than wasting time on speculating about
how they should be is at the core of this work. In this sense,
the historical "emasculation" of a whole tribal identity is the
real issue here, as the Chippewa Indians reveal how they first
flourished, then succumbed to a "might is right" political
ethic:  In the late 1700s and early 1800s, the large areas of
land in the western United States that were originally settled
by Indians were known as Indian Territory. As white settlers
moved westward, however, the United States