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| gaudy;overly ornate or showy |
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| God's care (or God's will) |
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| something twisted or bent out of shape |
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| old, run-down, and falling apart |
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| an open disregard to authority |
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| "Oneness" with nature and everything in it. |
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| The relatedness and responsibility connecting everyone and everything in the world to everyone and everything else. |
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| The importance of realizing one's identity--that is, of knowing who we are and what our beliefs are and of living our lives consistent to those beliefs. |
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| The importance of heritage and tradition. |
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| An emphasis on cooperation rather than competition (which, in general is looked upon as being negative). |
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| The infinity and goodness of things which reflect a circular or cyclical pattern. |
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| Sacredness of the number four. |
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Author of Beets: Performance Poet, Hunkpapa Lakota. Diane Decorah Memorial Award in 1994.
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| Author of Blue Winds Dancing: Born in NYC, spent much youth in Chippewa Reservation in Wisconsin. Medicine as career. Developed private practice in Texas |
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| Thomas St. Germain Whitecloud |
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| Author of Adventures of an Indian Princess: Cherokee and Irish ancestry, ten books/week, unaware of Native American Heritage. |
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| Author of At Last I Kill a Buffalo: from My Indian Boyhood (1931). |
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| Author of The Bingo Van: Wrote a 4 piece series with this in it. This story was originally in the New Yorker and then revised and put into a book he wrote. |
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| The road of life is harder when it's longer. A story of the creation of modern Earth. |
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| A man tries to find out who he is in this story. He finds a material goal that he wants to achieve and when he gets it he learns more about himself. |
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| A young boy marks his strength and honesty when he kills a buffalo calf on his first hunt. |
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| At Last I Kill a Buffalo. |
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| A young man longs for home during one Christmas season and is hopeful for acceptance from his family upon arrival. |
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| A boy needs to complete a task to have a vision in order to become a medicine man. He realizes the meaning of his name and why it is so important. |
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| A family's father goes overboard when trying to make them convert to nature by dong a lot more gardening. The rest of the family put up with it (although not wanting to) and eventually the children give up. |
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| the Creator;Sotuknang's uncle |
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| maker of the earth;Taiowa's nephew |
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| Wants to win the Bingo Van |
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| Seventeen years old, has a young boy. |
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| Grandmother of Lipsha, plays five bingo cards at once. |
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| From Montana, works at gas station, beats up Lipsha's car with his friends. |
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| Tattoo parlor owner, thinks just like Lipsha, mind twins per say |
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| Cherokee Indian who's father died and mother is ill. |
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| Antagonist who is a foster parent of many different raced children |
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| Man who had paint on to look like an Indian |
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| Showed Ota K'te what to do on the hunt and looked up to by him. Also skinned his calf. |
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| Killed a Buffalo calf with 5 arrows and told the truth about it. |
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| Called "I-ni-la" repeatedly so that everyone would know that they needed to be quiet. |
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| Longed for home and didn't enjoy white culture at his school in the southwest. |
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| Narrator of Blue Winds Dancing |
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| Americanized Indian from Blue Winds Dancing |
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| Had to stay in the vision pit for 4 days to have a vision. |
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| Gave Lame Deer a peace pipe. |
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| Vision is had of him where he is killed and passes on his name. |
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| Makes a quilt for Lame Deer |
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| Starts a garden because of fear of another Ice Age |
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| Father in Beets "Reverend Buck" |
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| Narrator of Beets who goes to school with blisters and helps her father with the new gardening project. |
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| Sister of Starshine who makes zucchini bread. |
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| Mother of Starshine who is actually and Indian. |
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