Kenneth Erdrich's Oral Storytelling To Lulu

Kenneth Roemer remarks the significance of storytelling that “The stories contain information that the listeners needed or still need to understand themselves, their culture, and their environment” (1982: 41-42). In the novel, Nanapush’s oral storytelling to Lulu has the aim to re-educate her by stories because she has been educated in the western tradition. Nanapush remarks that he has “so many stories . . . They’re all attached, and once I start there is no end to telling” (46). Stories are a source of reconstructing the losing cultural identity and resistance. Storytelling reminds the natives that stories are all they have. It leads and guides them to their culture. So the stories should survive and passed on. As long as the stories exist,