By the end of the night, Victor's aunt had been pushed down the stairs by a stranger, breaking her arm. The man who had fallen asleep on the stove, drunk, was set on fire. Victor explains how hurricanes would destroy homes and leave their contents scattered. How memories weren't destroyed but changed forever. This hurricane is the economic depression that the white settlers had opposed to the natives and which altered the traditions and morals of the Spokane reservation. “Victor's hurricane may seem small in comparison to those that have enveloped Native people across America since the arrival of whites, but it is just as devastating, and it shares the same sense of destruction and loss. » (Slethaug