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symbolism of food?

-dogs eating it earlier on in the book and then the food rotting
-dogs swarming and eating the food intended for arthur

“this Chesterfield, being mass-produced, was easier to draw through, and the straightness of its shaft was comforting in that its regularity suggested a modern world where order reigned supreme, each cigarette like the previous one, in a line extended back and back—soldiers in a column, advancing steadily and implacably forward, to bring civilization to the savage wilds.”

“as a boy, i had never understood how we had made it through winter like that, with so little, but we always had, farther back than anybody could remember, back to when Napi shaped the land.”

“one of the calves bawled loud and long and desperate, asking to feed, saying it was scared, and the napikwans all laughed, turned back to the fire… greased-shooters cost too much to waste on calves they can’t even get good robes from.”

“i’ll never understand the mind of the indian, who would give away that which he himself most direly needs.”

“amos short ribs tossed the bacon out for the dog, which snapped it up and swallowed without chewing, which i suppose is a thing i can identify with”

this man talks so much about food oh my god

“the savage mind is more rhetorically capable than i would have given it credit for.”

oh fuck off arthur

“i’ve heard our elders and many-faces men and even chiefs say that it’s the napikwans who are ruining the world, but napikwans are just what happens when we forget we’re pikuni. when we think a many-shots gun is more important than beaver medicine”