Characters
The narrator and main character in Indian No More
Who is Regina Petit?
In the book, back in Grand Ronde, Regina and Peewee learned how to make a Native American structure.
What is a lean-to?
Originally created by the US gov't to document Indians on reservations.
What are tribal rolls?
What is rez?
Who or what gives us our sense of who we are.
What is identity?
Regina's Mom who is Portuguese.
Who is Cate?
Regina's family moved to Los Angeles from a Native American reservation.
What is Grand Ronde?
Several different tribes from the southern part of the Pacific Northwest who were forcibly removed to the Grand Ronde area as what is now known as the Willamette Valley.
Who are Umpqua?
Strong, warm winter winds that blow inland off the Pacific Ocean.
What is Chinook (chai-nook) winds?
Stereotyped Native American characters created by the Hollywood movie and television industry.
What is Hollywood Indian?
The neighbor children from Cuba who entertained them with circuses, magic shows and marionette theater.
Who are Philip and Anthony?
Regina's dad was able to buy and fix this so they could watch shows and feel poor anymore.
What is a tv?
Regina wanted to be this for Halloween, but Chich said no.
What is Tonto? The fictional Apache sidekick who saved the Lone Ranger's life after a shootout with outlaws. Tonto assisted the Lone Ranger in catching "bad guys" across the West. Jay Silverheels, a Mohawk actor from Canada, played the role in the popular tv series.
A jargon used by tribes in the Pacific Northwest to communicate and trade with one another.
What is Chinuk Wawa?
On Halloween Regina, Peewee, Ms. Elsie, Keith and Addie experienced something awful happened.
What is racism?
The grandmother, Chich, died from what ailment in the hospital.
What is heart disease?
Regina's dad cut her hair so she could be more American. Who did Keith say she looked like?
Who are the Three Stooges? A slapstick comedy team that formed in the vaudeville era of the 1920's and made black-and-white short films of their physical antics and jokes.
A federal law aimed at relocating Native families from their reservation homes to cities such as Chicago, Denver, and Los Angeles, where they would receive job training and be assimilated into the general population.
What is the Indian Relocation Act of 1956?
It is the second-longest river and chief river of the second-largest drainage system on the North American continent.
What is the Mississippi River?
The school that Chich's mother was sent to and could not speak Umpqua or sing her songs.
What is boarding school?
The neighbor who was a doctor and helped Chich until the ambulance arrived.
Who is Ms. Hernandez?
The song that Daddy and Cousin Harlin danced to after Chich passed away.
What is the Honor Song?
An assigned federal government worker who managed services provided by the federal government on the tribal reservations like Grand Ronde.
Who is an Indian agent?
The Dakota word for water
What is mni?
The story that Regina told Chich as they were waiting for the ambulance to take her to the hospital.
What is Beaver and Coyote?