I-Hotel: Storytelling

It was interesting to see similarities between the character "turtle" whom is Native American to Mary Crow Dog in Lakota Woman. For obvious reasons, these two individuals have a lot in common. Both of these individuals are of Native American backgrounds and they both are very knowledgable about thier ancestors histories in America. Mary Crow Dog's novel is a memoir where she depicts personal accounts and experiences along with factual and historial information. Although her work is nonfictional, there are connections that exist between it and I-Hotel because of storytelling.
The character in I-Hotel tells a story about a historical event to the three Asian characters during thier boat ride to Alcatraz. Storytelling is a big part of the Native American culture and it is interesting to see it come about in a setting off of a reservation, such as in I-Hotel. Although the story that is told is factual, the way in which the character chooses to tell the story is in a story format. Mary Crow Dog, for several years, lived on a reservation and storytelling was a natural part of her culture that she grew up in. Although she did not focus on storytelling in huge sections of her work, the way in which she told her personal accounts was in a story-like format. She had to write her memoir in such a way that readers would stay interested and would enjoy reading. Although the stories are told in different circumstances, the memoir versus a story within in a story (I-Hotel), the two works are still connected by the stories that the two characters tell.