At the end of the night Victor's aunt had been pushed down the stairs by an unknown woman, breaking her arm. The man who fell asleep on the stove, drunk, was set on fire. Victor explains how hurricanes would destroy homes and leave their contents scattered. How memories were not destroyed but altered forever. This hurricane is the economic depression that the white settlers had pitted against the natives which altered the traditions and morals of the Spokane reservation. “Victor's hurricane may seem small compared to those that have enveloped natives across America since the arrival of whites, but it is equally devastating, and he shares the same sense of destruction and loss” (Slethaug