In Tony's Story, Leslie Marmon Silko uses Leon, Tony, and Teofilo to explain the genuine reality of the cop. The genuine reality of the cop is it is an "it," standing for evil that brings drought to the Indian people. Leon does not realize the genuine reality because he has become "white." He asks if he can remember how to do the Corn Dance. "He grabbed my hand and held it tight like a white …showed first 75 words of 454 total…

…showed last 75 words of 454 total…and as the storyteller he must keep the stories alive. He tells this story so they are not forgotten because they are all they have left. Leslie Silko uses Leon, Tony and Teofilo to explain the genuine reality of the cop. Both Tony and Teofilo see and know the cop is an it, but since Leon is a "white man's Indian," he cannot and sees it instead he views it as just a regular cop.