Burger caused a head-on collision with Calvin Wind Soldier and Duane while trying to send the imaginary eyes he saw into hell.

Archie Iron Necklace has a dream about Native soldiers escaping from marksmen through the opening of a medicine hole in the ground.

Herod Small War once worked for her in 1921 and engaged in an affair with her, as his wife refused to have sex with him because of certain Sioux traditions related to their newly born children.

Because a storm rolled in that night, the boys took shelter in Clara's home, where her spirit then helped to reveal that Herod Small War was himself, the medicine hole.

Following Evie's thought, Philbert walked into Margaret Many Wounds's house and began a conversation with the three women about the Moon landing.

Margaret Many Wounds became pregnant with Evie and Lydia by Dr. Sakuma, and decided to lie about the father to her tribe because she did not want to be known for sleeping with the enemy.

Chapter 6: A Hole in the Sheets - Time stamped 1961, Anna Thunder is taking a bath when she is interrupted by Jeanette McVay, who is offered peaches and water while she explains the reason for her visit.

Jeanette had traveled to Herod Small War's place to sneak into a sweat with Archie Iron Necklace and Bill Good Voice Elk.

He asks for cigarettes so Anna purchases them and then buys two tickets to ride the Ferris wheel where their car becomes stuck at the top.

When Anna awakes the next morning, Chester gathers his clothing and leaves the house smoke-filled with Jeanette making breakfast.

Additionally, Red Dress and Ghost Horse appear and share an important message with Harley about the grass dance, tradition, and his identity.

Chuck Norris attends events with Harley, and expresses his opinion by barking at people, or peeing on their personal belongings.

Described as a clever companion, has a pumpkin color, wiry fur and white speckles on his muzzle as main features.

An energetic character, Spotted Dog is up for adventure and pretends to lead the way during a journey with Red Dress and Long Chase, but is dependent and loyal to both.

Red Dress (Esther) is his secretary for all intents and purposes, but later Pyke becomes suspicious of her when the soldiers begin to be found dead.

A very thin, blonde, white woman, who has been thrust into poverty after the death of her husband, Fanny displays behavior that suggests she is desperate to escape her circumstances.

It is not mentioned how she died but her spirit continues to haunt her dilapidated home, making various, meaningful appearances to specific characters throughout the book.

She is found the next day in the snow frozen to a young Hackberry tree and was buried with her cousin Chaske in a joint funeral.

Ghost Horse dies in battle and leaves behind Red Dress’ spirit and later appears to Harley when learning how to pray.

Mercury Thunder uses her “bad magic” out of revenge against Calvin Wind Soldier because he is wearing a belt that repels her spells to make him fall in love with her.

Red Dress became a spirit according to the legend to protect her descendants and was projected to be the start of the magical medicine of the Thunder family.

However, towards the end of the novel, it becomes clear that Red Dress is the only supernatural force influencing the novel, since Ghost Horse has left the earth in spirit form after he died on the battlefield.

Yet the legend does hold truth, since Charlene Thunder constantly seeks out the love of Henry both of which are descendants of Red Dress and Ghost Horse.

Ultimately Charlene is faced with either becoming the witch that her family has destined her to be, or overcoming all adversity and living her life free and how she wants.

Magical realism in The Grass Dancer makes its appearance during certain rituals performed by the Dakota tribe, such as when Frank Pipe retells the story of when someone was killing reservation dogs and shooting coyotes.

According to Roland Walter who wrote “Pan-American (Re)Visions: Magical Realism and Amerindian Cultures in Susan Power's The Grass Dancer, Gioconda Belli' s La Mujer Habitada, Linda Hogan's Power, and Mario Vargas Llosa's El Hablador,” “Magical realism realizes the hybridization of the natural and the supernatural by focusing on specific histori- cal moments in order to problematize present-day disjunctive reali- ties” (Walter 66).

When Margaret Many Wounds passes away in 1969, Harley Wind Soldier witnesses through a television screen his grandmother's spirit dancing on the moon while Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin first set foot on its surface.

From her Voices from the Gaps interview with Shari Oslos, Power states in regard to her work: "I really feel that given the culture I was raised in, this is not magical realism, this is actual reality to me.

[4] In an interview[permanent dead link‍] with Shari Oslos from Voices from the Gaps, author Susan Power discusses her take on the critics reaction to The Grass Dancer.

"I've been writing all my life, even before I could read I filled pages with the letters I knew from the Alphabet song, and would seek out my parents, hold up the nonsense paper and declare, "This is what I wrote!," then I would tell them whatever story I concocted on the fly."