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Theatre seeks to educate an audience. In analyzing cross-cultural dramatic texts and performance, one of the questions to ask is how are cultural ideas communicated to audiences from another culture. Fish’s argues that the many ways in which audiences read texts is integral to the interpreting of texts (1980:2 & 16). The same is true for a theatrical performance. Native American theater poses additional issues: audiences consist of people who come from many cultural backgrounds and social influences, and each audience member comes to a performance with various types of cultural knowledge about a show. Because of such knowledge, each audience member will have left the show with their own interpretations about what messages, either cultural or moral, the characters in the performance are conveying to them. And each interpretation is important to what was seen in the performance because those ideas that have developed in the minds of the audiences come to, represent perhaps, various social ideas among a group of people. Les Pereira talks about the concept of scaffolding as a significant means of transferring knowledge from the teacher to the learner. Pereira argues that scaffolding entails: “…the need to begin from