Can We get a Nut Cracker for this Nuttiness?

Okay, so this post I'm writing about how nutty the section Requiem For A Leg was. It was absolutely ridiculous. These people are in court over a leg! I seriously had to check a few times to actually make sure I was reading the right thing and that it was for real. Some of the questions that were asked were crazy like, "Do you think you could identify your father's leg if the moccasin and legging on the leg as you now see it were not there?" Seriously? It's a leg! Also, not only are they fighting over a Native American leg, one of the lawyers is a Native American who is missing an arm! Now that's just overkill. The only explanation I could think of for this craziness was written on the back of the book: "Native people will love The Light People, partly for its own sake, partly because it will drive Eurocentric scholars crazy trying to figure out what it is." Perhaps that's what's happening here, I'm a eurocentric and I'm going insane trying to make sense of it.