Storytelling
This term refers to stories that explain how the world came to be and often involve animals or supernatural beings.
What are creation stories or origin stories?
The narrator of Keeper'n Me.
Who is Garnet Raven?
What is to assimilate Indigenous children into Euro-Canadian culture, or to "kill the Indian in the child"?
What was taken from the speaker in “I Lost My Talk".
What is their language and cultural voice?
Identify the goal of the Voice Amplification Project.
What is to research and share the influence of a contemporary Indigenous figure?
Roles that Elders and Knowledge Keepers play in Indigenous communities.
What is preserving and passing down cultural knowledge, stories, values, and teachings?
The historical event that resulted in Garnet being taken from his family as a child.
What is the Sixties Scoop?
The year that the last Indian residential school was shut down.
What is 1997?
“Coyote and the Enemy Aliens” is a trickster story. Identify the purpose of a trickster in Indigenous literature.
What is to teach, challenge norms, and reveal truths through chaos and humour?
An important reason for amplifying Indigenous voices.
What is it helps counter stereotypes, promote equity, or support cultural pride?
Name a common element/topic found in many traditional Indigenous stories.
Answers may vary. What is a connection to the land, animals as teachers, or stories with moral or spiritual lessons?
A lesson Keeper teaches Garnet about being Ojibwe.
What is living in harmony with the land, living in 'a good way', or traditional practices and values?
Identify an impact of intergenerational trauma.
What is disconnect from culture and family, cycles of abuse, or poverty?
The genre of "Tony Toenails".
What is graphic fiction?
*Answers may vary*
The identity of the Code Talkers and what language-related contribution did they make during WWII.
What is Indigenous soldiers (like the Navajo Code Talkers) who used their traditional languages to send unbreakable secret messages in battle?
How Garnet understands the idea of 'home' by the end of the novel vs the beginning.
What is learning that home is more than a place—it’s where you are connected to people, culture, and self?
The one church that has not yet formally apologized for their role in residential schools.
What is the Roman Catholic Church?
The definition of satire, and how it was used in "Another Great Moment in Canadian Indian History".
What is using humour and irony to criticize colonialism and stereotypes?
Name 3 Indigenous literary themes that we have encountered in this course.
Answers may vary. What is reconciliation, healing, spirituality, connection to the land, identity...?
Two ways to determine whether an Indigenous text is authentic.
Answers may vary. What is being composed by or with an Indigenous author, representing stories from groups that they are part of, or not relying on negative stereotypes or showing bias against First Peoples.
Identify one major theme in Keeper'n Me.
What is identity, belonging, or generational healing?
Name 3 practical steps toward reconciliation that members of your group proposed in their Reconciliation Speeches.
*Answers may vary*
One reason graphic novels are an effective way to tell Indigenous stories.
What is combining visuals and text to engage readers and reflect cultural expression?
Define metaphor and provide an example:)
What is a type of figurative language that describes one thing as if it were something else, without using "like" or "as", helping create a strong image or connection by saying one thing is another. *Examples may vary*