Tyson Yunkaporta

It's never coming back.

You know, financial crisis and all this sort of thing, ecological crisis, and everyone thought they were finished.

Yeah, it's a little foundling.

That's it.

And yeah, it's not his own.

And he's a completely ruined man who can't possibly care for a baby.

But that's what sort of lifts him up.

Having to look after that baby has to be a better man.

I can relate to that.

Yeah.

Yeah, it was, well, it was difficult.

I mean, you could see that places were interchangeable for the characters, like they'd have an attachment to place, but they didn't really get the places where they were.

They didn't get what the land was doing and they really had no story for that place except for their own personal story.

sort of overcoming of hardships.

He does.

And there's about three references to former Indigenous peoples, you know, in the area that, you know, were, you know, the earlier characters in the book, you know, actually helped to eradicate or remove, you know, these pesky Mohawks who were

you know, became uppity and had to be removed and all that sort of thing.

And then, you know, one of the like more likable characters, you know, the homosexual character, you know, he keeps a bunch of plundered totem poles, you know, in his mansion.

And things like that.

So there's kind of like these uncomfortable reminders throughout that you're on Indian land and