People
This person is blind but can still see with her heart.
Who is Grandmother?
He burst in to take Mother and Soft Rain to the stockade.
Who is Big Boots?
Soft Rain's whole family worked together to accomplish this.
What is planting selu?
They were talking too fast for Mother, and it made her scared.
Who are the soldiers?
The dead souls were there, and they were miserable.
Where is out West?
They were the first Cherokees.
Who are The Real People?
She died from the white man's coughing disease.
Who is Green Fern?
Soft Rain gave Grandmother flowers, and Grandmother gave Soft Rain this.
What is a doll?
If you weren't old or little, you couldn't ride the wagon. You had to do this.
What is walk?
Where Soft Rain first learned they were moving west.
Where is school?
She was teaching Green Fern and Hawk Boy to read.
Who is Soft Rain?
She and Pet went to live with a white family.
Who was Grandmother?
There was lots of dancing and clapping here.
What is the Green Corn Dance?
This made it difficult for them to cross the Mississippi River.
What is ice?
This place was smelly and loud with lots of moaning, crying, and vomit.
Where is the pen?
He was defiant and didn't drink when the white man told him to.
Who is Old Roving Man?
This marked the place where a chief had been buried.
What is a white cloth?
This made Mother and Aunt Kee so happy, they danced.
What is rain?
He was scared to ride in the wagon because he was sick, and he knew sick people died in wagons.
Who is Hawk Boy?
Here they had food, a place to sleep, and the young chief tried to find Father.
Where is Rattlesnake Springs?
Soft Rain was reunited with this character, at the end of the book, when she woke from her long sleep.
Who is Uncle Swimming Bear?
Soft Rain and Hawk Boy lost the group staying behind with these people.
Who were the white children?
They were reunited with Soft Rain and Mother at the barn.
Who were Father and Hawk Boy?
Many died because there was never enough of this.
What is food?
Here they paid to be taken where they didn't want to go.
Where is the river?