John Fire Lame Deer is a Native American who has been raised in two completely different worlds. One being a world of animistic beliefs tightly binding Native American communities and the other being the capitalistic world of the European-American. John Fire Lame Deer participated in a popular rite of passage among Native American tribes known as the vision quest allowing him his first glimpse of the spirit world. By looking at John Fire Lame Deer's …showed first 75 words of 594 total…

…showed last 75 words of 594 total…the deer all have free spirits yet have been replaced by domesticated animals with no true purpose in the cycle of nature. He feels that the "white man" sees himself as supreme over nature; therefore he views nature as unclean and soiled unfit for him to live in. John Fire Lame Deer believes that the "white man" has ruined nature and by changing it into something unnatural has committed a great travesty against the environment.