Vocab
To take hold of something forcibly
What is seize?
This animal ate all of Matt's supplies.
What is a bear?
Matt and Attean both have this kind of sibling.
What is a younger sister?
A group of Native Americans is called this.
What is a tribe?
Matt and his father build this type of home for the family by hand.
What is a log cabin?
Showing lack of interest
What is nonchalant?
Matt mainly survived off of this animal when he was responsible for his own food.
What is fish?
In both cultures, these people are responsible for cooking the food and minding the children.
Who are women?
Native Americans believe you should not do this to any part of an animal.
What is waste?
Matt kept track of the days and weeks by doing this.
What is notching sticks?
loud, noisy, crazy
What is boisterous?
Matt earns Attean's grandmother's respect by doing this.
What is saving Attean's dog from a trap?
Matt's father gives him this heirloom before he returns to Quincy.
What is a silver watch?
Native Americans do this to mark their hunting territory.
What is carve symbols in trees?
Ben did this to Matt.
What is stole his gun?
Filled with restrained, dignified anger
What is indignant?
Matt tried to take the product of this creature from the tree.
What are bees?
Matt's family was delayed because they all contracted this disease.
What is typhus?
Attean's mother was killed by this group of people.
Who are white men?
Matt only has these two books in his cabin.
What are the Bible and Robinson Crusoe?
That which cannot be understood
What is incomprehensible?
Matt used this animal to distract the bear in the woods.
What is a rabbit?
Matt made these things in preparation for his siblings' arrival.
What are a doll and a cradle?
Attean says owning this would be the same as owning air.
What is land?
Matt thought of Attean as this discriminatory word when he first met him.
What is a savage?