Junior
The activity that Junior does "all the time" (Alexie 5).
What is drawing?
OR
What is cartooning?
The thing Rowdy is probably most known for (Alexie 17).
What is fighting?
OR
What is being mad?
Junior's four-legged friend, who dies at the end of chapter 2 (Alexie 13).
Who is Oscar?
A three-letter nickname for the Reservation (Alexie 3).
What is the "rez"?
According to Junior, this is the worst thing about being poor (Alexie 9).
The number of teeth Junior has (Alexie 2).
What is forty-two?
While in Kindergarten, Rowdy got into one of these with a couple of other kids, and his teacher (Alexie 18).
What is a fight?
"Given the chance," Junior says of this character, he "would have been a musician" (Alexie 13).
Who is Junior's father?
What is the powwow?
The two speech impediments that Junior has (Alexie 4).
What Junior was born with too much of (Alexie 1).
What is cerebral spinal fluid?
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What is teeth?
Junior makes these for Rowdy to give him "other worlds to live inside" (Alexie 23).
What are cartoons?
According to Junior, this character "would have gone off to college" and "Still reads books like crazy" (Alexie 11).
Who is Junior's mother?
According to Junior, these cost only "about two cents, and anybody can afford that" (Alexie 14).
What are bullets?
The reason that Junior compares himself to a capital L (Alexie 3).
What is, because he's so skinny but his feet are a size 11?
According to Junior, "Almost all of the rich and famous brown people in the world" are this (Alexie 6).
What are artists?
A type of book that Rowdy reads all the time -- examples include Archie and Richie Rich (Alexie 22).
What are comic books?
The thing that Rowdy does to the Andruss brothers near the end of chapter 3 (Alexie 22).
What is shaving their braids?
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What is shaving their eyebrows?
The actual name of the reservation Junior lives on (Alexie 7).
What is the Spokane Indian Reservation?
Junior compares Rowdy to this animal, because he is as "long and lean and strong" as one (Alexie 15).
What is a snake?
Junior and Rowdy's birthday (Alexie 17).
What is November 5, 1992?
Rowdy has spent roughly 40,880 hours with this person (Alexie 24).
Who is Junior?
At the Spokane Powwow, this people dance like chickens, and have earned a nickname from Junior and Rowdy (Alexie 19).
Who are the "chicken dancers"?
According to Junior, a good piece of this will make anyone believe in the existence of God (Alexie 8).
What is chicken?
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What is KFC?
One of the names that the Andruss brothers calls Junior, referring to the "hydro" water in his brain (Alexie 21).
What is Hydromatic, Hydrocarbon, Hydrocrack, Hydrodynamic, Hydroelectric, Hydro-and-Low, Hydro-and-Seek"?