Biblical/European Text
How is Noah unusually portrayed in the second creation story and what is the purpose of this portrayal?
What is he is portrayed to be aggressive, crude, and lustful, purposefully undermining his traditional heroic portrayal in western literature?
***What Christian figure is in the boat that Changing Woman lands on with all the animals?
What is Noah?
characters like Portland, Eli, and Lionel struggle with what?
What are cultural dual identities?
What is significant about Alberta Now?
What is a play on Ted Byfeild's right-wing publication report Alberta Report?
What does the title of the second part translate to?
What is "South/White" in the Cherokee syllabary?
In this section, what areas of European literature does King aim to critique?
What is power dynamics, exploitation, and cultural commodification within European narratives
In the second Creation Story of Changing Woman, what does King want readers to understand?
What is the lasting impacts of colonialism on Indigenous people?
***Eli's return to the reserve after years spent in Toronto illustrates what?
What is tension between cultural worlds?
What is significant about Big Canoe and the Little Man?
What is the big canoe is likely a swipe at missionary adaptations of biblical stories for Indians.
The Noah and the Ark story in Gen. 5-9. According to Noah's "Christian Rules on his Christian Ship," animals don't talk, as they do in Indian narratives.
***What indigenous group does the Changing Woman story reference?
What is Iroquois?
***What problem does King use the dam project to reflect?
What is the dam project conflict is used as a means in which to reflect the tension between economic interests and cultural preservation that we still see today?
*** Although different Iroquoian-speaking peoples tell slightly different versions of the creation story, all the stories begin with what?
What is they all begin with water and the Sky Woman falling from the sky.
Ishmael's creation story, featuring the Sky World, the Water World, and the enigmatic Changing Woman causes readers to reflect on what?
What is human nature and the pursuit of power?
Who is the Bennett Clinic named after?
What is R.B. Bennett, who was a prominent Alberta Politician, and Prime Minister from 1930-35.
Bennett, the Conservative opposition leader, ran against Liberal Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King during the 1930 federal election.
What does Dead Dog Cafe exemplify?
What is the separation between two cultural groups?
King’s section two seeks to tell us about how aboriginal characters manipulate and fall victim to stereotypes, what is the relevant impact of this king hopes to address?
What is indigenous people’s loss of touch with culture and indigenous roots due to forced assimilation as well as their manipulation of stereotypes to try and fit within Western/European standards to find success?
What is the reason King includes killing of the whales?
What is King includes the mass killing of whales as a way to critique how Christians believe in their hierarchy over animals and the way they see other creatures as inferior beings.
***What is the impact of King having characters, like Latisha and Eli, fall in love with white partners (cross-culture relationships)?
What is King demonstrates the complexities of cultural identity tension, sheds light on the impact of stereotypes, and discusses cultural misunderstandings.
What is the significance of the American visitors to the Dead Dog Cafe?
BONUS +300
What is the significance of the names of the American visitors, Nelson, Jeannette, and Rosemarie de Flor?
What is all these figures have been active in the stereotyping of Canadian Indians and Canadian Life in the North or West?
BONUS:
What is Jeannette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy starred in Rose Marie (1936), a musical romance about life in Canada's North, Mounties and all.
What is the name of the ship that Ishmael and Ahab were sailing in?
What is Pequod?
***Although King writes to speak too all the issues that can be seen regarding European/ Western narrative and the assimilation of it with indigenous peoples and their stories, what positive message does he also hope to also portray through his characters?
What is the resilience and agency of Indigenous peoples in navigating the challenges they face?
***In Iroquois Creation Stories, what is the significance of Animals as an element of their Indigenous storytelling?
What is because of how traditional tribal members see animals as certain legends and seek to unite individuals with the spirits, personalities, and bodies of such creatures in narrative form, as well as since in Christianity often animals are overlooked as inferior beings, in the stories of the Iroquois, the animals are made to possess potent orenda that can help one achieve success through their specialized abilities and united spirits?
As readers follow Lionel's journey, what does King want readers to take from Lionel’s character's development?
What is readers are meant to learn from Lionel’s journey of self-discovery that many Indigenous people struggle with the navigation of the complexities of their heritage, finding belonging creating an identity, and their struggle with the assimilation of their Indigenous roots with the expectations of the modern world?
Sam Molina's book on pasta is a pun on what?
Semolina, the flour for pasta.
How does the character Bill Bursum act as an example of how capitalism intersects with cultural exploitation?
What is he exploits Aboriginal culture for profit?