Invited himself into Matt's cabin, ate more than his share, then stole from Matt.
What is Ben?
100
The location of the family cabin built by Matt and his father
What is Maine?
200
A short musket of wide bore with expanded muzzle to scatter shot, bullets, or slugs at close range.
What is blunderbuss?
200
Disturbing this resulted in injury and friendship with Indians
What is beehive?
200
Spunky, with sparkling eyes, probably considered the journey to Maine an adventure and surely would use a gun if necessary
What is Sarah?
200
One of the two books Matt had and Matt's favorite
What is "Robinson Crusoe"?
200
A "good for nothing" gift that Attean gave Matt
What is Attean's dog?
300
(among the Algonquian Indians) A supernatural being that controls nature; a spirit, deity, or object that possesses supernatural power.
What is Manitou?
300
A broken branch, a small rock next to a larger one, a tuft of dried grass dangling from a branch of a small tree
What are trail signs?
300
Bound to get to cabin in Maine before Christmas
What is Matt's mother?
300
The one source of food that Matt knew he could always count on
What is fish?
300
Indians signed away their land because they did not know how to read treaties
What is the reason Saknis wanted Attean to learn white man's signs?
400
A gift from Saknis which set Matt free in the snow
What is snowshoes?
400
Tended Matt's cut hand, washing it with clean warm water, spread a pungent-smelling paste over the wound, then bound his hand with a lenght of blue cloth
What is Attean's grandmother?
400
Killed by Attean with help from Matt's rabbit
What is a bear?
400
Planting, watering, and weeding corn, cooking, basket weaving, and sewing
What is Squaw's work?
500
To make or arrange from whatever materials are readily available:
What is improvise?
500
Indicated the hunting ground of Attean's clan
What is beaver tree carvings?
500
Had to make a difficult life changing decision either of which would cost him a loss of people he cared about
What is Matt's?
500
Believed in Matt's ability to secure the family's survival till the spring but did not understand Matt's relationship with Indians
What is Matt's father?
500
Typhus, the frozen river no one would risk crossing, building a sled, not to count the distance to be covered in the snow.
What are reasons Matt's family was so late coming?