By Louis Owens
Many Native American people viewed salient American cats jaguars, mountain lions, and cougars- as
and possessing supernatural powers. Choctaw-Cherokee author Louis Owens focuses on a black panther in
the Yazoo River basin in Mississippi. The wounded panther besieges the cabin where a California son is
visiting his Choctaw great-uncle. Soul-Catcher revolves around this mixed-heritage youth who learns about
his identity from ethnography books and folktales. In contrast, his isolated, traditional great-uncle has learned
his identity through experience. The cabin sits in Mississippi Delta swampland, ideal panther habitat. Owens
says that nalusachito is a Choctaw intelligence that translates as soul-catcher, soul-eater, or soul-snatcher. Although
Owens terminates this story with suspense, the tale conveys a moral
concord to Owens, his story is based on an event in his childhood. His incur had gone hunting along
Yazoo River. On his way home, a black panther, painter as he pronounced it, began stalking him. He reached
the door of their cabin, and shut it behind him before the panther could pounce.
The angry animal leapt to the
roof, and the family spent the night listening to its footsteps and screams.
So the story, soul-catcher, has somehow the same environment. Owens starts his story by creating an eerie,
ominous setting. The young, pale-skinned boy who has been educated in the light of California is brought to
the Mississippi swamps of the Yazoo River by his uncle, and old man who has learned to survive in the
wickedness of the swamps. The old man lives his life by hunting raccoons, skinning them and change their skin
to the black man who came from across the river to buy coon skins.
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