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Gerald Vizenor’s treatment of such concepts as terminal creeds, trickster figure, and shaman as well as animal images such as the crow, the dog, and the bear in his trickster novel Darkness in Saint Louis Bearheart appears somewhat destructive according to Jean Baudrillard’s theories of simulation, fossil, obscene sexuality, and the fourth world. Vizenor’s own theory reveals that Vizenor does not contrive to deny tradition as Baudrillard’s theories interpret but rather attempts to cure his readers through the imaginative and deconstructive writing tool of the trickster. The comparative study of the two different interpretations by Baudrillard’s occidental and Vizenor’s aboriginal theories locates Vizenor’s discourse in the global horizon. While Baudrillard’s theory discloses Vizenor’s trickster discourse as driven by the energy which causes tradition to vanish, Vizenor’s theory discloses his discourse in harmony with tradition and in the pursuit of cure.