Thomas, the narrator of Smoke Signals is a storyteller, an individual responsible for carrying on the oral tradition of the tribe. What stories does he tell that seem to carry more meaning than what appears on the surface?

Smoke Signal is a Native American movie written, produced and co-directed by Native Americans. The movie tells about the cultural tradition of the Native American people. Thomas loves to narrate stories to others which is consider to the oral traditions of the Native American. Thomas starts by telling about the fire in which his parents were killed; then he narrates how Arnold took him for breakfast and then Arnold as a hippy arrested at an anti-Vietnam war demonstration. Each of his stories tells about how Arnold was but, in reality, he was an alcoholic which Victor knew it made him imagine his father in a new way.