Dene is on his way to meet a panel of judges and believes they will all be old white men who will hate him immediately. That representation, like Dene’s video project, empowers Indigenous presence in all spaces, urban and reservation and rural alike. It is home to many of the characters in There There, who traverse it by bike, bus, BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit), and sometimes even by car.All of the characters in the novel come together at the Big Oakland Powwow. As Jean O’Brien points out, Euro-American treatments of Native communities and cultures have historically leaned toward firsting and lasting in order to brush Indigenous societies aside and usher in Western modernity. The two make good money off the white boys and their friends that summer. Word Count: 1289. Thomas Frank is a former custodian at the Indian Center and a drummer at the powwow. I grew up in a reservation community in very rural North Dakota, yet I see myself in Orange’s characters who may have never experienced the home community of their ancestors, who may recognize their indigeneity and sometimes worry they’re trying too hard to hold onto it, who may feel the importance of Native presence in all the spaces and the pressures of identity politics, which rarely serve actual Native communities. It tells the story of twelve characters, each of whom have private reasons for traveling to the Big Oakland Powwow. The lands that belonged to Native people for millennia were stripped away violently and totally, and the “there” of Native culture has been lost. We’re thrilled you’re here. Use at least 5 quotes from the book to strengthen your arguments. For non-Native readers who share in some of the struggles with settler colonialism, Orange’s novel is one of healing, pulling together the intimacies of family, community, history, and violence. Early on, Dene Oxendene, one of Orange’s dozen characters, encounters a smug outsider who inaccurately references Gertrude Stein’s lament of her changing hometown, that “there was no there there … Through Dene, Orange makes an important intervention by representing Native life in cities (and Native life everywhere) on its own terms as simultaneously joyful, difficult, loving, sad, but never “pathetic or weak or in need of pity.” This isn’t to say that Orange’s novel is blindly optimistic, but Orange does not privilege trauma over the hope that comes from family and community. but it feels well-positioned as “both traditional and new-sounding,” a testament to Native cultural evolution. Of course, Orange’s characters are already familiar with the effects of colonialism. There There centers contemporary Oakland in the weeks leading up to the Big Oakland Powwow, the characters’ lives intersecting around this shared trajectory, orbiting around and through their community as they seek to define and understand what that community means to them. Thanks for exploring this SuperSummary Study Guide of “There There” by Tommy Orange. Jacquie Red Feather is newly sober and trying to make it back to the family she left behind in shame. Dene is a young documentary filmmaker who picks up a project from his uncle and applies for a grant to carry it out. When not buried in academic work, Alex hikes, runs, and restores cheap mid-century furniture. There is an ironic element to this moment, when this significant quote, central to the Dene's identity, is pointed out to him by a white stranger competing for resources with him. Documentary filmmaker Dene Oxendene, one of a dozen characters whom we meet in this book, gives his take (based on Gertrude Stein's famous quote about Oakland, "There is no there there.") Tony agrees with this assessment. There There (Book) : Orange, Tommy : Twelve Native Americans came to the Big Oakland Powwow for different reasons. The Rumpus is a place where people come to be themselves through their writing, to tell their stories or speak their minds in the most artful and authentic way they know how. Its short chapters constitute a polyvocal novel of memory and healing in the tradition of Toni Cade Bambara’s The Salt Eaters, Cristina García’s Dreaming in Cuban, or Louise Erdrich’s The Plague of Doves. Log in here. Finally, for Native and non-Native readers alike who buy into prescriptive definitions of indigeneity—that “real Indians” meet a blood quantum or reside on reservations or in non-reservation tribal communities—the novel shows that these prescriptions cannot represent Native identity or experience. Dene Oxendene is pulling his life back together after his uncle’s death and has come to work at the powwow to honor his uncle’s memory. Academic ethnography, especially in the early 1900s, presented Native societies as arrested and fading—either “traditional” or “new-sounding,” but never both. He knows when people say one thing and mean another. Jacquie Red Feather is newly sober and trying to make it back to the family she left behind in shame. Already a member? Oakland, CA: Located in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area, Oakland has a diverse population of ~433,000. He tells Dene that he is moving to West Oakland because it is "dirt cheap." He knows how to spot fear in people. The Rumpus is a place where people come to be themselves through their writing, to tell their stories or speak their minds in the most artful and authentic way they know how. This there there. He understands the quote to be that the Oakland she had known growing up, the there of her childhood was gone there was no there there anymore. This there there. But for Native people in this country, all over the Americas, it’s been developed over, buried ancestral land, glass and concrete and wire and steel, unreturnable covered memory. Orange’s portrayal of the Oakland Native American community, while not shying away from the frequently harsh realities of Native life in the United States, does not make a totality out of the harshness. There There is an exceptional read for a book group to begin or expand their knowledge of Natives or to be inspired to share their own Native stories. This structure can be tied to the role of Dene Oxendene, one of the book’s characters who is granted funding to collect the stories of American Indian people around the city. At age twenty-one, he considers the Drome his “power and curse.” A counselor assures him that people born with FAS have a spectrum of abilities and tells him that he has great intuition and street smarts. Tommy Orange’s debut novel There There is grounded in place, specifically Oakland, California. Dene Oxendene. Some of the characters, like Dene Oxendene, Edwin Black, and Orvil Red Feather, are seeking out their Indigenous ancestry to better understand themselves and their place in Oakland. The quote is important to Dene. Dene Oxendene is there to set up a story booth to capture the stories of his people. Mistaking Dene for non-Native, he also smugly reminds him that no one is really from Oakland. Fourteen-year-old Orvil, coming to perform traditional dance for the very first time. In order to help Maxine, Tony has been selling weed since he was thirteen. Tony’s grandmother, whom he calls Maxine, tells him that they are Cheyenne and that all the land they see once belonged to their people. But the legacy of settler colonialism is only part of the story. There There does not settle, it unsettles. Dene Oxendene, pulling his life together after his uncle’s death and working at the powwow to honor his memory. Last Reviewed on January 27, 2020, by eNotes Editorial. For Orange and the characters in his novel, there is no sense of being the first or last descendant of Native peoples relocated to cities, first or last Native person to struggle with identity after being removed from family and ancestral homeland, or first or last young Native person to question blood, their place in history, or their future. Tony isn’t sure he can get it but tells them to meet him at the same store in one week. Opal Viola Victoria Bear Shield has come to watch her nephew Orvil, who has taught himself traditional Indian dance through YouTube videos and has come to the powwow to dance in public for the very first time. What we’ve seen is full of the kinds of stereotypes that are the reason no one is interested in the Native story in general, it’s too sad, so sad it can’t even be entertaining, but more importantly because of the way it’s been portrayed, it looks pathetic, and we perpetuate that, but no, fuck that, excuse my language, but it makes me mad, because the whole picture is not pathetic, and the individual people and stories that you come across are not pathetic or weak or in need of pity, and there is real passion there, and rage, and that’s part of what I’m bringing to the project, because I feel that way too…. And there will be sacrifice, and heroism, and unspeakable loss. Through his video project, Dene himself is honoring his recently passed uncle, an aspiring filmmaker who couldn’t beat alcoholism. Welcome to The Rumpus! Essay 3: Character Analysis Write a 1,000 – 1,200+ word character analysis of Dene Oxendene, the protagonist of Tommy Orange’s chapter excerpt, “Dene Oxendene” from his novel There There. Dene puts his headphones on, shuffles the music on his phone, skips several songs and stays on “There There,” by Radiohead. Even though Oakland is the city where they were born, these characters recognize an ancestral connection to other homelands, and they make Oakland something new in the process. There is also, of course (regarding echoes, repetitions), the novel's title itself.The title (as noted in the book) comes from an often-quoted remark by Gertrude Stein, who spent much of her childhood in Oakland: "There is no there there," Stein said, of Oakland. Foremost, the novel offers Native readers, especially urban Native readers, a representation of their experiences and struggles in a major literary publication. Dene Oxendene is pulling his life back together after his uncle’s death and has come to work at the powwow to honor his uncle’s memory. Opal Viola Victoria Bear Shield The fragmented effect of polyvocality gestures toward postmodernity, like the EDM-powwow music of A Tribe Called Red that the character Edwin Black appreciates: “It’s the most modern, or most postmodern, form of Indigenous music I’ve heard that’s both traditional and new-sounding.” Fortunately Orange doesn’t push the novel deep into the rabbit hole of postmodern style (sorry Pynchon, DeLillo, et al.) As Orange writes in the interlude midway through the novel, Only those who have lost as much as we have see the particularly nasty slice of smile on someone who thinks they’re winning when they say “Get over it.”. Like the project, which captures only snapshots in the lives of the people who share their stories with Dene and his camera, There There presents its characters’ stories in snapshot form, backstory mashed together with their present-day movement toward the Big Oakland Powwwow. There There Quotes Showing 1-30 of 197 “If you were fortunate enough to be born into a family whose ancestors directly benefited from genocide and/or slavery, maybe you think the more you don’t know, the more innocent you can stay, which is a good incentive to not find out, to not look too deep, to walk carefully around the sleeping tiger. Orange’s older characters, Opal Viola Victoria Bear Shield and Jacquie Red Feather, were present at the Indians of All Tribes occupation of Alcatraz in 1970, and decades later they undergo their own struggles for healing and cultural recognition. He then backtracks and says that they probably did but didn’t have the weapons of the white men, such as guns and diseases. Just as Dene rejects the man’s incorrect understanding of the quote, Orange challenges racist portrayals of Native American people. Older and younger characters alike live through the effects of settler colonialism daily—confusion that comes with generations of displacement, depression, violence, addiction. Dene Oxendene is pulling his life together after his uncle's death and has come to work at the powwow to honour his uncle's memory. Or does every person feel responsible for... How does Tommy Orange's novel There There explore the idea of belonging to a culture, tribe, city, or family? I’m a mixed Dakota-Ojibwe-Scandinavian who is phenotypically heavy on the Scandinavian. The novel isn’t preoccupied with plot, however, but rather with place and the people who construct it. Orange joins those ranks with There There, staging interventions in harmful misunderstandings and stereotypes about urban Native life. THERE THERE follows 12 characters from Native communities: all traveling to the Big Oakland Powwow, all connected to each other in ways they may not yet realize. Something too big to feel, underneath, and inside, too familiar to recognize, right there in front of you at all times. Opal Viola Victoria Bear Shield has come to watch her nephew Orvil, who has taught himself traditional Indian dance through YouTube videos and will to perform in public for the very first time. Those kinds of people need this novel in their own way, and we need to find ways to bring them to it. This quote explains the title of the novel, There There. Dene is on his way to meet a panel of judges and believes they will all be old white men who will hate him immediately. Even though I did not grow up in a city, Orange’s characters are very familiar for me. Start your 48-hour free trial to unlock this There There study guide. For non-Native readers dismissive of the legacy of colonialism and resonant trauma, who “say things like ‘sore losers’ and ‘move on already,’” the novel offers an education. Polyvocality serves as a world-building component of There There, constructing a sense of community out of the lives of the people. But for Native people in this country, all over the Americas, it’s been developed over, buried ancestral land, glass and concrete and wire and steel, unreturnable covered memory. In a flashback, Dene recalls how he’d thought up the tag Lens when his uncle had come to visit. There will be glorious communion, and a spectacle of sacred tradition and pageantry. There There is a relentlessly paced multigenerational story about violence and recovery, memory and identity, and the beauty and despair woven into the history of a nation and its people. More from this author →, Tags: addiction, Alcatraz, Alex Cavanaugh, Arapaho, Bay Area, California, Cheyenne, colonialism, community, Cristina Garcia, Dakota, debut novel, depression, displacement, Dreaming in Cuban, first book, gentrification, gertrude stein, indigeneous peoples, James Baldwin, Jean O'Brien, Louise Erdich, Muwekma Ohlone, Native Americans, Native peoples, Oakland, Ohlone, ojibwe, oklahoma, place, Plague of Doves, polyvocality, representation, Scandinavia, setting, settler colonialism, The Salt Eaters, There There, Tommy Orange, Toni Cade Bambara, trauma, violence. A group of white boys approach Tony in a liquor store parking lot and ask for “snow,” or coke. Dene begins filming stories from Native people in and around Oakland, including at the Big Oakland Powwow. The hook is “Just ’cause you feel it doesn’t mean it’s there.” Edwin Black is a bi-racial young man who lives on the internet who discovers his father is Harvey by accessing his mother Karen’s social media and takes an internship at the Indian Center, coordinating the powwow. In one of the section breaks, Orange quotes James Baldwin’s essay “Stranger in the Village”: “People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.” There There is a vibrant movement through the mechanism of that trap. He hadn’t read Gertrude Stein beyond the quote. “There is no there there,” he says in a kind of whisper, with this goofy openmouthed smile Dene wants to punch. In his interview before the grant board, he explains: I want to bring something new to the vision of the Native experience as it’s seen on the screen. He was suspended many times for fighting in schools, noting that when he gets mad, his face heats up and hardens “like metal,” and then he blacks out. There There A Novel (Large Print) : Orange, Tommy : "Here is a story of several people, each of whom has private reasons for travelling to the Big Oakland Powwow. The Gertrude Stein quote about the disappearance of the “there” she once recognized as home points to the novel’s title and takes on a new light when viewed through a Native point of view. Part II, Orvil Red Feather–Jacquie Red Feather, Part III, Opal Viola Victoria Bear Shield–Daniel Gonzales. He hadn’t read Gertrude Stein beyond the quote. He stands tall so that no one will bother him and predicts that “Maybe I’m’a do something one day, and everybody’s gonna know about me. There is no there there. His face has physical differences, from drooping eyes to the spacing of his features, and he has been told that he is in the lowest intelligence percentile. Alex Cavanaugh studies Native American literature and teaches writing at the University of Oregon. He says:: “This there there. The Rumpus NewsletterGet Our Overly PersonalEmail Newsletter, Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window), Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window), Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window). All of Orange’s characters are in some way marked by trauma but are defined by love and resilience. Tony goes home and puts on his powwow regalia, feeling like an Indian dancer, not seeing the Drome. Orange confronts this tendency head-on. There is no there there. He is interested in Native literary interrogations of justice, place, and history. We strive to be a platform for marginalized voices and writing that might not find a home elsewhere, and to lift up new voices alongside those of more established writers we love. Explain who he is, how he got to be who he is, and how he identifies himself as a Native American. Dene Oxendene, a young filmmaker and enrolled member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma (like Orange), who is “ambiguously nonwhite” in the eyes of those around him, reflects the novel’s vision. Which characters in There There felt discriminated against? We haven’t seen the Urban Indian story. • There There by Tommy Orange is published by Harvill Secker (£14.99). How are gender roles portrayed in the novel There There by Tommy Orange? Dene shakes his head no but actually knows, actually googled quotes about Oakland when researching for his project. At her request, Tony also reads to her before bed, even though reading is difficult since the letters “move on [him] sometimes like bugs.” Maxine enjoys hearing “Indian stuff” that he doesn’t always understand but that somehow makes him feel better and less alone after reading it. Several of Orange’s characters negotiate these kinds of questions, but for each of them simply existing as an Indigenous person is a claim of cultural resilience. Free UK p&p over £10, online orders only. Tommy Orange is basically Dene Oxendene (at least without me knowing anything about him) and I feel like the curtain’s been pulled aside in Oz with this character. Trying to acquire funds for a cultural arts grant, Dene is not “recognizably Native.” Instead, he is “ambiguously nonwhite,” and people have often simply asked him, “What are you?”. Dene Oxendene is pulling his life together after his uncle's death and has come to work the powwow and to honor his uncle's memory. Does the book There There see addiction as a result of historic discrimination against Native Americans? There is no there there. There There content, as well as access to more than 30,000 additional guides and more than 350,000 Homework Help questions answered by our experts. At The Rumpus, we know how easy it is to find pop culture on the Internet, so we’re here to give you something more challenging, to show you how beautiful things are when you step off the beaten path. They are keepers of history and carriers of hope. There There (Book) : Orange, Tommy : "Here is a story of several people, each of whom has private reasons for travelling to the Big Oakland Powwow. As a Bookshop affiliate and an Amazon Associate, The Rumpus earns a percentage from qualifying purchases. eNotes.com will help you with any book or any question. Out-of-Body Recognition: A Conversation with JinJin Xu, Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Michael Akuchie. A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality study guides that feature detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, quotes, and essay topics. The novel is peopled by characters with some degree of Indigenous ancestry, many Cheyenne-Arapaho like Orange. Our summaries and analyses are written by experts, and your questions are answered by real teachers. The brilliance of Orange’s novel, for me, is that it doesn’t try to do any of these firstings or lastings in that it doesn’t tell its characters’ whole stories, which would do a disservice to the novel’s sharpness and its deft construction of people and place. There is no there there. Essay Topic 5. Dene Oxendene, who is pulling his life back together after his uncle’s death, has come to work at the powwow to honor his memory. Tony tells him that the purpose is to make money, and Octavio tells him “that’s why we’re gonna be at that powwow too.” Octavio has a gun made with a 3D printer and plans to use Tony to help stash the ammunition in a sock which he will then throw into some bushes at the event. We work to shine a light on stories that build bridges, tear down walls, and speak truth to power. Describe a few ways a character in... What is Tony's relationship with Octavio in There There. If you’re a fan of beautifully written literary fiction with depth, then There There should be on your TBR list. It seems ambitious to collect a dozen characters’ stories in a novel under three-hundred pages, many with only slight intersections and brief plots. There There A Novel (Downloadable Audiobook) : Orange, Tommy : Fierce, angry, funny, heartbreaking—Tommy Orange's first novel is a wondrous and shattering portrait of an America few of us have ever seen, and it introduces a brilliant new author at the start of a major career. Octavio says he owes somebody money and has to do things this way. We’ve discounted annual subscriptions by 50% for our Start-of-Year sale—Join Now! Once a nurse herself, now Maxine needs lots of medical assistance that she can’t afford. Jacquie Red Feather is newly sober and trying to make it back to the family she left behind in shame. There There also feels a little too self-aware at times. Dene Oxendene has appeared in the following books: There There At The Rumpus, we know how easy it is to find pop culture on the Internet, so we’re here to give you something more challenging, to show you how beautiful things are when you step off the beaten path. The first time Dene Oxendene saw someone tag, he was on the bus. Damage narratives do little good for Native communities; they favor deficiency over resilience in order to elicit sympathy from non-Native readers. ... Dene Oxendene: documentary filmmaker enrolled in the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes. Tommy Orange’s debut novel follows twelve characters of Native American descent in contemporary California as they converge for the Big Oakland Powwow. ©2021 eNotes.com, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Maybe that’s when I’ll come to life.”. Finally, he tells Dene that Gertrude Stein once said "There is no there there" about her hometown of Oakland. Tony surmises that the Cheyenne didn’t have street smarts, since they allowed the white men to take all of their land. Orange balances the need for holistic representation of hardship and hope together. Dene Oxendene Character Analysis. He talks to his mother, who is in jail, occasionally on the phone, but she usually makes a comment that makes him regret talking to her at all. He knows when someone is trying to “come up on” him. Part I, Opal Viola Victoria Bear Shield–Edwin Black. Start your 48-hour free trial to unlock this There There study guide. The first time Dene Oxendene saw someone tag, he was on the bus. She tells him that his father doesn’t know he exists, and when he asks for her to tell him, she refuses: “It ain’t simple like that.”, His tall and physically imposing figure helps Tony face conflict. Tony Loneman was born with fetal alcohol syndrome, which he calls “the Drome,” and it has caused various effects. It was unnecessary to spell things out so much. This income helps us keep the magazine alive. We work to shine a light on stories that build bridges, tear down walls, and speak truth to power. Dene wants to tell him he’d looked up the quote in its original context, in her Everybody’s Autobiography, and found that she was talking about how the place where she’d grown up in Oakland had changed so much, that so much development had happened there, that … He secures a grant to record stories from Native people in Oakland, which he will make into a project that does not put a documentary spin on their stories; he envisions an honest account of daily life that would provide the Oakland Native community a sense of shared experience. Someone had taken a photo of the bus Dene was riding, and in the... (The entire section contains 1289 words.). 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