The Sleepwalker's Guide to Dancing

AUTHOR’S NOTE

As is often true in novels, historical events in this novel have been distorted, embellished, and reimagined. While the $162 million settlement for the Puyallup Tribe of Tacoma Indians was a real event, Bobby McCloud is an invented character, and his tragedy and the resulting quotes from tribe members are wholly fictional imaginings; any other resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental. I do not intend to speak for the tribe or their feelings about the settlement — my interest was with the intersection of the “Indian” narratives, and what it means, as an immigrant, to make a life in a stolen country.