Chapter 24 Summary

This chapter talks about Junior Polatkin. Junior Polatkin has dreams of being a gunfighter and he goes to Gonzaga University in Spokane. Junior explains that this school was originally built to educated Indians, but now mostly consists of white students that wish to move far away from their parents.

Junior listens to a blonde girl in his history class. The girl argues with the teacher in class and he is eager to listen to her points. Junior falls in love with the blonde when she talks about the old West in a disparaging way. Junior believes that she understands what it was really like for Indians and everyone else.

Junior follows the blonde into the cafeteria because he wants to talk to her. The girl spies him following her and rudely asks him what he wants. Junior is speechless and she asks him...