Linda Hogan's Solar Storms
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Linda Hogan’s Solar Storms examines the anguish Native American’s had to endure to protect their land from Dams being built. It talks about the strain the building of these dams put on the innocent people, how some have been thrown out of the homes they built for themselves and how it changes their lives. In this novel, the white people cause so much unnecessary harm for these human beings. “Gun’s in soldier’s hands, Bush would say, always shoot precious things. It was true, like one of Husks’ rules of physics. It wasn’t their heads that shot, or even their minds” (477). If it is not their heads or minds that shoot, then what is doing the shooting? Is that statement pointing to something metaphorical? If it is, does it point to the people who