The Journey and Setting
What mode of transportation do the women use to travel back to Dora-Rouge's homeland?
What is a canoe?
What day of the week was the last day the narrator called by name?
What is Wednesday?
What animal does the narrator become equal to in hearing, movement, and sight?
What are other animals (or any animal)?
What color is the world described as being on some mornings when the sun floods from the east?
What is copper?
According to Dora-Rouge, what has the group always been?
What is lost?
Name the Native American elder who leads the group and predicts the places they will pass.
Who is Dora-Rouge?
According to the text, what do northern people dream about finding food?
What are hunger maps?
: What yellow, life-giving substance floated across the dark water and gathered where water met land?
What is pollen?
The decaying remains of a boat on an island resemble what body part of a large animal?
What are ribs?
The speaker in the poem says she most perfectly resembles trees and flowers when she is doing what?
What is sleeping?
How many miles did the group travel on some of their longest days?
What is thirty miles?
What plants began to appear in the narrator's dreams after leaving time?
What are vines, tendrils, leaves, and flowers?
The narrator describes the four women becoming like what single entity as they traveled?
What is one animal?
In the poem, what does the speaker say she would rather be than a tree?
What is horizontal?
What does the narrator lose by leaving time and entering timelessness?
What is their former sense of life and being on earth (or their old identity)?
What natural landmark did the group pass that bore ancient red drawings of moose and bear?
What are cliff walls?
The narrator compares the roots of dreaming to the seeds of what two elements create water?
What are hydrogen and oxygen?
: What ancient bond of survival links plants and humans according to the narrator?
What is breath (or breathing)?
What do the wolves' voices sound like as they sing in the distance?
What is a cloud covering the world from horizon to horizon?
In the poem, the speaker says she will be useful when she lies down finally because what will happen?
What is the trees may touch her and the flowers will have time for her?
Describe the weather conditions on the morning when the world was covered in fog and birdsongs sounded forlorn.
What is a foggy morning with distant birdsongs?
Explain what the narrator means by saying "we were only one of the many dreams of earth."
What is the idea that humans are part of nature's larger consciousness or that the earth itself is dreaming us into existence?
What does the narrator find in a pond that is "fertile and transparent" with life already moving inside?
What are tiny eggs?
The narrator describes being "entangled" by plants in what parts of their body?
What are stems and vines?
Explain the connection between the prose passage's theme of "dreaming" and the poem's theme of "lying down."
What is both texts explore a state of rest, receptivity, and connection to nature that transcends normal human consciousness and activity?