Nobody has a sense of humour.
Another character has already decided that this is the same thing that's wrong with white people, and with Indians. But it's certainly not a problem for Thomas King, a Native author of Cherokee and Greek descent. He's also a photographer who has made a series of portraits of Native writers wearing Lone Ranger masks. There's a little of all these kinds of humor in this book. Truth is a small railroad town in Montana, and Bright Water is the Indian reserve just across a river in Canada.