Vocabulary
Name for the Navajo homeland.
What is Dinetah?
Relative who drives Kii Yazhi/Ned to the boarding school.
Who is his uncle?
Kii Yazhi/Ned's age at the time he left for boarding school.
What is six years old?
Who did Kii Yazhi/Ned describe as "tall as a lodgepole pine?"
Kind of jewelry worn by Kii Yazhi's mom in the first chapter of the book.
What is turquoise and silver?
Means "the white people"
What are bilagaana?
Nickname given to Kii Yazhi/Ned by Hosteen Mitchell.
What is Wolachii (ant)?
Which country did Kii Yazhi/Ned collect food for while in high school?
What is Japan?
What made Kii Yazhi/Ned feel "as if he were a sheep about to be sheared?"
What is getting a haircut?
Word for goodbye in Navajo.
Navajo name for the US.
What is Nihima?
Teacher at the school who washes students' mouths out with soap when they speak Navajo.
Who is Mr. Reamer?
At what age did Kii Yazhi/Ned finally join the Marines?
What is 16?
What made Kii Yazhi/Ned feel "as if I were a little pet monkey that had just done well at obeying a command?"
What is being patted on the head by a teacher?
What is "Tradition is the Enemy of Progress?"
Protection ceremony held for Kii Yazhi/Ned before he joins the Marines.
What is The Blessingway?
The Marine recruiter who comes to recruit Navajos for the Marines.
Who is Johnny Manuelito?
When the whole Navajo tribe was forced to walk hundred's of miles to Fort Sumner.
What is The Long Walk?
About whom did Kii Yazhi/Ned day "He looked like an eagle staring down from a high mountain crag?"
Who is Johnny Manuelito?
Most common name given to boys at the boarding school where Kii Yazhi/Ned went.
What is John?
Hello in Navajo.
What is "Yaat'eeh?"
This is the man who performed The Blessingway ceremony for Kii Yazhi/Ned.
Who is Hosteen Mitchell?
What is December 7, 1941
About who did Kii Yazhi/Ned say, "they watched us the way coyotes watch a prairie dog hole?"
What are their teachers?
Number of people in the Navajo tribe at the time of World War I
What is 50,000?