Ids Sg

Study Guide, Drimmer

Terms & Themes

Adoption

Agokwa

Aiskawbawis

Ambush

Animal sacrifice

Ashalecoa

Assimilation

Baggatiway

Beaver

Bible/books

Blanket Indians

Blankets

Burial practices

Cannibalism

Cherokee

Chief Ottawa

Child birth practices

Chippewa

Comanche

Council House

Councils

Cuthairs

Dancing

Delaware

Disease

Dreams

Dress

Drunkenness

Duchouquet

Escape plans

Execution

Fanny Kelly

Fort marriage

Fort Michilimachinac

Games

Gauntlet

Gender roles

George Girty

Great Knives

Guns

Horses

Hunting

Ketteselo

Kishkauko

Land ownership

Laughter

Manito-o-geezhik

Mannuchcothee

Medicine

Meshawa

Miami

Morality

Native pidgin

Nelson Lee

Ojibway

Ottawa

Owaneeyo

Parenting

Peggy Fleming

Racism

Religious beliefs

Revenge

Savages

Scalp

Shamans

Shawnee

Sleek Otter

The Great Turtle

Tobacco

Torture

Trade

Transformation

Trinkets

Tulhasaga

Violence

Wapatomica

War-making

Wawatan

Whiskey

White Bird

William Crawford

Witchcraft

Wyandot

Yankton Sioux

Yellow Head

Questions

1. How did horses change native lives?

2. How did natives adopt or otherwise assimilate their captives into their communities?

3. What was the purpose or message of scalping?

4. What was Native family life like?

5. How did white captive attitudes toward and assumptions about natives change over the course of the book?

6. What was the purpose of gauntlets? Why were some easier than others?

7. How did the captives escape from their captors?

8. How were natives controlled by the actions of the British and French?

9. How did the natives decide which captives lived and which died?

10. How did native councils work?

11. How did natives travel with and without their goods?

12. What can you say about the domestic arrangements of the natives?

13. What is the feast of the dead? What ideas of life after death do the natives have?

14. What character traits did natives...