In this chapter Junior’s sister dies in a fire. And his dad picks him up from school after he runs from the teacher and he can’t stop laughing because he thought his dad had died as well on the icy roads. They have a wake where all of his cousin’s get drunk to honor a drunk couples death. And a funeral where Junior runs away into the forest to hide but he runs into rowdy and he’s crying because he thinks that by Junior leaving the rez he caused his sister to run off and end up dead.

“If you’d given me a room full of sober Indians crying and laughing and telling stories about my sister then I would of gladly stayed and joined them in ceremony.”I think this quote is important because it shows that Junior despises them being hypocritical and he’s showing that they don’t really care because so many people have died but he still does care.