Attean
The name of the book that Matt and Attean read to learn English.
What is Robinson Crusoe?
Matts dad left him with these two items.
What is a rifle and a watch?
The cabin chimney is made out of this.
What is clay?
This person in the village did not like white people.
Who is Attean's grandmother?
This person stole from Matt.
Who is Ben?
Attean made this for Matt's fishing pole.
What is a new hook?
This is Matt's age at the start of the story.
What is twelve years old?
Attean used this to cover his face at the feast.
What is paint?
This person was Attean's sister.
Who is Marie?
A spirit that comes in a dream.
What is a manitou?
Attean went fishing and used this to catch fish.
What is a spear?
Matt's family is from this town in Massachusetts.
What is Quincy?
What is a blunderbuss?
Matt watched the ladies do this kind of work (this is what Attean called their work).
What is squaw work?
This is how Matt kept track of time.
The Indian word for "no." Attean screams this when he first learns that Matt will teach him to read.
What is nda?
Matt hung this on strings in his cabin.
What is pumpkin?
Matt made this for his sister.
What is a doll?
What kind of Indians are the Beaver Clan?
Who are the Penobscot?
Matt and his family moved to this territory.
What is Maine?
The indian words for "Good for nothing."
What is "piz wat?"
This is what caused Matt's family to be so late.
What is typhus fever?
The kind of trap that Matt used to kill a fisher. He used this to make his hat at the end of the book.
This is why Attean's tribe uses the sign of the beaver.
What is to mark their hunting ground?
The author of The Sign of the Beaver
Who is Elizabeth George Speare?