Characters
Historic Information
Basic Information
Story Details
Ojibwa Words
100
Who is the protagonist?
Omakayas
100
The schools set up to teach Native Americans (when they had to leave their families and villages)
Boarding Schools
100
Old Tallow is known for this clothing item.
Her winter coat
100
Who does Old Tallow protect Omakayas from?
The yellow dog
100
Megwetch means
Thank you
200
How many husbands did Old Tallow have?
Three
200
How is smallpox spread?
Virus - through the air
200
Story setting-- What Island does Omakayas and her family live on?
Island of the Golden-Breasted Woodpecker
200
Omakayas can talk to...
Animals (bears)
200
Omakayas means....
"Little Frog"
300
The naughty brother is...
Little Pinch or Big Pinch or just Pinch
300
What year did the British doctor Edward Jenner invent the first vaccine for smallpox?
1796
300
Who tells stories in winter only?
Nokomis.
300
What does Nokomis offer up to the spirits?
Tabacco
300
Nokomis means
Grandmother . . .
It is also a Lake in Minneapolis that you can visit
400
What kills Ten Snow?
Small pox
400
Who was the only person left on Spirit Island?
Why was she the only one left?
Omakayas
Smallpox had taken the life of every other person in her village.
400
What is the place called native's stored food in for winter.
A cache (hole in the ground lined with birchbark)
400
What does Old Tallow tell Omakayas at the end of the novel?
That she is the girl from Spirit Island. She had smallpox when she was very young and survived.
400
Wild Rice Gathering occurred in which season?
1.Neebin
2.Dagwaging
3.Biboon
4.Zeegwun
Dagwaging - fall
500
What is the baby and what does his name mean?
Neewo, means "fourth"
500
The Ojibwe call themselves ...
Anishinabe
500
What does Omakayas want to make for baby Neewo out of her beads?
Makazins
500
Why did Fishtail want to learn English?
So he can read and understand so their tribe could not be taken advantage of.
500
makazins are ...
shoes