Creek Stomp Dance Songs, jazz, blues, and unique singer/poet medleys.
100
What were some of the things the narrator remembered her parents teaching her as a child?
Any of the following: taught her to dance, how to make music on guitar and fiddles, how to use different herbs, how to weave baskets and the stories of their people.
100
What does the author Wendy Rose blame her mixed family heritage on?
She lacks relatives because her family threw her away.
100
What theme is found in the story lullaby?
familiar siko theme of traditional indian lives, especially those of women, in confliuct with values and practices of mainstream society
100
Where does the story take place?
The Hospital.
200
Why did Joy Harjo write "Remember?"
She wrote it out of a definite acknowledgement of ceremony.
200
What gift did the narrator's friend, Cheechum, have?
She had the gift of "second sight"- could sometimes see the future.
200
How long has Sidney, Clare, Granddad, and Nana been dead for?
25 years
200
The story lullaby reveals what conflict?
The conflict between an elderly navajo couple and euro-american authorities and the difference in cultural values
200
Who is she at the hospital to see?
Her mother.
300
what are the three main themes in "Remember"
Earth, Parents, and Yourself. (Can have other answers).
300
What does the narrator promise she will do?
She will walk with her head held high and be proud of who she is.
300
What kind of bruises does Wendy talk about in her writing?
Both physical and emotional. She asks the reader what they think she is talking about, but is later explained as both.
300
The lullaby sung by the mother and grandmother resembles what?
Healing and protection.
300
What was Gracie Evers job?
Picking cotton.
400
According to the poem, what are you evidence of?
You are evidence of your mother's life, her mother's and hers.
400
What were some of the hard times the narrator remembers from the summer trips?
When the fathers would get drunk, or when they would walk into town and the white people would insult them.
400
Why was it so hard for her to write this essay?
She struggled to lessen her self-centering, self-pitying, and self-involvedness in her writings.
400
What were the doctors doing when they came in to take danny and ella away?
They were waving papers at her and a pen trying to get her to undtersand english.
400
How did she describe her mother while in the hospital?