The novel Indian Horse written by Richard Wagamese is an award winning novel based on an aboriginal boy and his journey through life battling with racism and cruel jokes. Saul Indian Horse is a native boy whose life got turned upside down when he was taken to the residential school St. Jerome. Throughout the novel, Saul engages in the amazing game of hockey, but not without critics. A crucial turning point in Saul’s life is when he gets liberated from St. Jerome and beings playing hockey with the Moose in Manitouwadge which means “Cave of the Great Spirit”. At --- years old, Saul was asked b Father Leboutiler if he would like to go live with a family, the Kelly’s, in Manitouwadge to play hockey with the ‘Moose’.…
They are on the trail of what Billy thinks is a coon, but actually turns out to be a mountain lion. Old Dan and Little Ann get into a terrible fight with the lion. The lion rips the dogs apart, especially Old Dan. The dogs save Billy's life by jumping in between the lion and Billy. Finally, Billy plunges his ax into the lion and kills him.…
Cole doesn't realize his anger is affecting him by making bad choices. Edwin and Garvey help him deal with his anger by doing things like carrying the ancestor rock, offering circle justice, soaking in freezing cold water, and also giving him advice about how anger is never forgotten, along with offering different perspectives trying to change Coles mindset by telling him on page 139 “Yes the hot dog celebration was a big deal. It was a party. It was a feast. All because that is what I made it.…
Jared Hunt hr2 10/9/14 Betancourt, Stephanie. “Why Did The U.S. Government Force Indian Children Into Boarding School?” Do All Indians Live In Tipis: Questions and Answers From The National Museum of the American Indian.…
In the book The Big Truck That Went By: How the World Came to Save Haiti and Left Behind a Disaster by Jonathan M. Katz we learn that all help is not helpful, but we can change that. In 2010 an earthquake hit Haiti, being one of the worse things to happen to this already poor country. This book provides us with a lot of information about the before and after of the Haiti earthquake. Help was provided to help rebuild, but some solutions worked and some didn’t. Instead of focusing on what will be noticed by the outside world, Haiti needed what would help them rebuild as a country.…
Memories, with or without context, play a key role as plot devices in both Away from Her and “Bear Came Over the Mountain.” Used to provide context for their only semi-chronological story lines, memories in the story and movie alike give solid glimpses of the past that allow the plot to move forward. One of the most prominent memories, in both the story and the movie, and certainly the clearest of the latter, is the section in which Grant and Fiona go on a walk/ski in a park. The substantial differences between the scene and the passage, range from difference in dialogue to difference in visuals. This section is an excellent example of the drastic differences sometimes found in adaptations, and allows for the presentation of a case for the…
Historical Fiction: Chickadee I have chosen the novel Chickadee by Louise Erdrich for the exploration assignment to address what the historical novel is able to accomplish that a conventional text of the same subject could not. Chickadee is the continuation of a story and fourth book in a series by Erdrich that began with the novel The Birchbark House that introduced a seven-year-old Ojibwe girl named Omakayas. Chickadee takes place in mid-1800 Minnesota and picks up the story with Omakayas eight-year-old twin boys, the quiet Chickadee and the mischievous Makoons. These twins are always together and every member of their family loves both dearly.…
The Claw of the Bear is about a young teenager who is 15 years old named Jimmy Atkinson Who lives in alaska with his dad. while he is living in alaska a famous documentarian comes and asks Jimmy to film about the bears in the park he lives in. When all of the sudden a couple gets murdered during their vacation here they automatically assume it's bears but when Jimmy further analyzes the scene he realizes this was no bears doing it was an actual human who caused it . Jimmy then takes on the investigation with his friend Arthur and they get clues and step by step get closer to solving the mystery of the murder.…
Cultural Identity is something that makes people who they are; it can deeply affect how you see the world because it shapes how you perceive new things. And as a child, many people do not realize the impact observed actions can have on someone when forming cultural identity. How a person grows up can really change who they are as a person, due to the great influence that parents and caregivers have on the children in their early years. Not only that but, when a child is exposed to a new environment or community they can begin to do things differently than their parents and that can begin to change them.…
The two works are Beowulf and “Racing the Great Bear”. The themes of these works were very similar. They were similar because in Beowulf the theme was about honor and bravery. They were similar because in “Racing the Great Bear” the theme was about bravery strength, determination, and caring for others. In the story Beowulf Beowulf was full of honor and bravery so he confronted Grendel trapped him and broke his muscle and bone.…
At the Colorado Convention Center in downtown Denver lurks a huge blue bear outside of the building. A local artist named Lawrence Argent created the blue bear out of alloy steel and fiberglass. Argent’s sculpture is titled I See What You Mean also known as The Big Blue Bear. The bear stands 40 feet tall and was installed in 2005. Argent was born in England and went to the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, in Australia to train in sculpturing.…
In Zitkala Sa’s short story The Soft-Hearted Sioux a Native American boy goes to a mission school that teaches him that killing anything is wrong. His father is sick and unable to hunt, and he did not kill until it is too late. The young man is born and raised Native American but, is taught Christianity in school which made him a social outcast to both his people and their ways of life. Zitkala story The Soft-Hearted Sioux, portrays that the boy is torn between two faiths.…
The Main character of the story is Stephen Quinn. Stephen is 15 years old and lived with his dad and grandpa ever since he was born. When Stephen is 15, his grandpa dies and it leaves him with his dad. When Stephen ends up in Settler’s Landing, the people learn to trust him and befriend him, but some people think that he is some kind of spy from another settlement that doesn’t like their ways.…
Tree,” Jesse Stuart writes about two characters who are separated by cultural differences. These differences lead to later conflicts that physically threaten each other to the point of pulling out a gun. Confused by each other’s world, they at first cannot find a connection between each other. The two main characters are culturally divided for example by appearance, knowledge, and even their own moral outlook. Jesse Stuart uses clothes to contrast characters and to be a key visual difference.…
Introduction: Oh no how has uncle got me into this! In this essay i'm going to be talking about a character from the novel Lost In The Barrens, he goes by the name of Jamie. He was forced to live with his uncle in the Cree camp in Northern Canada as he could not afford to keep him in boarding school in Toronto. Jamie had no survival skills what so ever and had no idea how he was going to survive.…