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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...