Drowning in Fire religion which declared that "Indians" were

which declared that "Indians" were "all other persons of one-half or more Indian blood

grounded in tribal myth and ancestry

University of Minnesota Duluth

" and "The Kiss and the Moonshine

Drowning in Fire religion which declared that "Indians" wereJosh Henneha has always been a traveler, drowning in dreams, burning with desires. As a young boy growing up within the Muskogee Creek Nation in rural Oklahoma, Josh experiences a yearning for something he cannot tame. Quiet and skinny and shy, he feels out of place, at once inflamed and ashamed by his attraction to other boys. Driven by a need to understand himself and his history, Josh struggles to reconcile the conflicting voices he hearsfrom the