Indian Education?

This story is told in first person by Victor and is mostly about Victor's life growing up, but includes various less important characters throughout. Although in the previous stories we've read, we see Victor growing up as he started off as a young boy in Every Little Hurricane and from there aged, in this story we get a recap of all of his younger years from an unknown later perspective. He begins as a warrior, but slowly but surely realizes his inevitable future. He not only begins to lose his innocence but losing a connection with his people after kissing the white girl. This story shows more racism and more stereotypes that people put upon Indians such as the assumption that him passing out due to diabetes was him being drunk, or that the white father beating his white daughter must have been Indian. As Victor graduates, keeps a straight face as he thinks about the future. In this moment, I saw this as a little bit of his warrior still being there was he graduated on top of his class. His friends however, graduating with smiles on their faces think about the partying they will take part in. Years later, Victor looks back and wonders what it was all for. While he got pushed around and grew strong, his friends were together and never thought there was anything they could do after high school besides drink and party. He is faced with the truth that although he received an education, in the end he has the same future as the rest of the people on the reservation.