In the story "Blue Winds Dancing" the narrator misses his home in Wisconsin, he's going to school in California and feels alone. He is an Indian but is in a society that is White, and the culture is White. *All is different in Wisconsin from California. The narrator tells us what is different between Wisconsin and California and why he not ashamed of his culture or his people.

Wisconsin is the narrator's home, where his people are, and where he wants to be. When the story begins, the narrator sees geese flying south: "They were going home" (paragraph 1). That makes him think about his home in Wisconsin, and he can't concentrate on his studies. He begins to think about mountains and beyond the mountains is where home is. In Wisconsin the leaves change colors before they fall, and birds sing their last songs before...