Summarized & Analyzed: "Green Grass, Running Water"

by Student World

It is to be reminded that the Canadian government had promised the Indigenous people rights to their land ‘as long as the grass is green and the water runs. The title of the present novel is a reference to that promise. Thomas King has lived as an indigenous man in Canada. The novel describes how important land was to the Indigenous people of Canada. The story is set in a contemporary First Nations Blackfoot community in Alberta, Canada. The novel teems with humor and strife. The novel satirizes on the Judeo-Christian beliefs, the western government, and society.

62 pages, Paperback

Published July 30, 2017