As Orvil prepares to attend his first-ever powwow after months of studying Native history and dance on the internet, Orvil feels a strange itching in a familiar lump on his leg. Shortly after this brief passage, Orvil will pull several spider legs out of the lump—a mystical and symbolic discovery which will speak to Orvil’s own emergence as a member of his community and an heir to Native tradition, and indeed to all the unexplainable and occasionally traumatic mysteries of life as a modern-day Urban Indian. Orvil has been unable to stop “scratching” at more than just his leg of…