Chapter 1-2
Chapter 3-4
Chapter 5-6
Chapter 7
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What is the main character's name?
Olemaun
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What was the main character's English name?
Maragaret
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Why did classes have to be halted in October?
P. 55-56 “The whole of the North seemed to come down with a sickness called smallpox, and the hospital filled to capacity...we worked around the clock with the nuns and the men who were hired to do the chores that we children could not do.”
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Who was the only outsider Margaret / Olemaun would miss when she left the residential school?
Sister MacQuillan
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Why did Olemaun want to go to school?
To learn how to read
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What does "flitting" mean?
To move swiftly and lightly.
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What did Olemaun do at school when she got there instead of learning?
Cleaning
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What news did Olemaun receive when the boat delivered a letter from her father?
She learned that she would have to stay at the residential school for another year because the ocean froze over early, preventing travel.
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How long has it been since Margaret / Olemaun heard her real name?
2 years
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Why did Indigenous children have to go to Residential Schools?
To be assimilated into European culture
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Where was the residential school located?
Aklavik
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What did the nuns do to most of the girls' hair? Why do you think they did this?
They sever their hair, her sister said it was because the nuns don’t want to have to braid the younger girl’s hair.
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What was different about the stockings the Raven gave to Olemaun?
She gave her a pair of bright red stockings that made her legs look even bigger than they were
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Did Olemaun's recognize her when she arrived back home?
No
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Who was the "Raven"?
The name Olemaun gives to one of the cruel nuns at the school.
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What did Olemaun's mother say to her to try to convince her not to go to school?
The nuns will cut your hair, make you work even harder than when you help your father, they will not be kind to you, they are not your family and they are not like us.
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What does "somber" mean?
Dark and gloomy
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What did Margaret do with the stockings?
She put them in the fire below the pot to boil the laundry.
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Why didn't Olemaun's mother recognize her right away?
She remembered a pale eight-year-old with pudgy cheeks. She was now tall, lean, very tanned, and ten years old.
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Is "Fatty Legs" based on a true story?
Yes
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What does Olemaun's father tell her about the schools and the outsiders?
The schools and the outsiders do not teach Indigenous things and instead they teach them to be more European and to ask God for forgiveness
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What did Olemaun decide that she would teach the Raven?
She had something to teach her about the spirit of the Inuvialuit
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How do you think Margaret felt when she told the Raven she couldn't put on her stockings?
Brave, empowered.
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Why did Olemaun's mother cry at the end of the chapter?
Olemaun did not like the traditional food anymore, and her mom called her an "outsider".
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What is the name of the nice nun?
Sister MacQuillan