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Which land does Angel describe as raw, scarred, and harsh?

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The land of the Fat-Eaters

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How does Angel say the land runs?

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In rivulets and bogs, ponds and streams

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How is the land like Angel?

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It was native and it had survived

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Where might an ice jam break loose and rage over the ground?

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Riel River

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What will happen after th ice jam that the American Indian people would be happy with?

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A flood of unplanned proportions

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What is describe as doing what it wanted and in its own way?

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Water

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What is the original name of the Fat-Eaters?

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The Beautiful Ones

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What colors were the church the settlement was built around?

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White with dark blue trim

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Why did the people at the territory’s outermost edges live there?

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They were resettled after having lost their own lands to the hydroelectric project

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Why does Dora-Rouge wear despair on her face?

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She returned to die in a home that no longer existed

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What is missing from her memories of the land of the Fat-Eaters?

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Animals, people, clans, landmarks, sturgeon, the water, the trees

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What does Dora-Rouge touch with tenderness because they still remained?

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The gnarled trees, the stones, the swamp plants

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What kind of machines are between every few of the little, fast-made shacks of the resettled people?

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Coca-Cola and candy

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Why were there Quonset huts?

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The military left them behind after they were done using the land as a bombing range

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Who lived in the better houses?

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Men looking for oil and the last loggers

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Why does Angel say that even if she knew them, Dora-Rouge would not be able to recognize the latest generations?

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They had puffy faces, empty eyes, an unkempt, hollow appearance

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What does Angel call what is taking place there?

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Murder of the soul

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How do the young children handle their feelings?

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Alcohol, glue, paint, having children

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Why do they need to self-medicate using alcohol?

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It is the only medicine left for all that pain

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The people without alcohol would do what because of their pain?

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Wept without end, cut and burn their own bodies

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What lay over the people?

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A smothering blanket, devastation and ruin that had fallen over the land

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What does Angel think the intention was all along?

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To make the people too broken to fight

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What does Dora-Rouge think the only hope is for the people?

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To protest against the dams and river diversions

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Why did Angel push Dora-Rouge to the post?

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To buy some Hostess chocolate cupcakes that they were both craving

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What does Angel mistakenly think Tulik's name is?
Eddie Bauer
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What does the old man sitting beside the gun cabinet ask Dora-Rouge?
Say, weren't you the woman with the corn?
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What had been Tulik's position in the tribe?
A tribal judge
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What was Dora-Rouge's mother's name?
Ek
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How is Tulik related to Ek?
He is her cousin
30
What does Tulik share with Dora-Rouge from the brown paper bag?
A sandwich made of Spam and white bread
31
What does Angel lose in the mud?
One of her shoes
32
How is the land like Angel's mother?
They are both stripped and torn
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What makes Angel more anxious to find her mother?
The silence that follows when people hear she is one of Hannah's daughters
34
Where does word (gossip) travel quickly?
In small towns
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How does Angel describe the cold lake water?
Like a cold baptism
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Like a baptism, what does Angel hope the water will do?
Cleanse all the pasts, remove griefs
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What is the name of the old woman keep of the animals?
Eho
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Why did Eho swim nearly to her death?
She was trying to reach the mother of water to bargain for all life
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What did Eho fall in love with?
The whale in the heart of water
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After Eho dies, what did the Great Spirit say, according to Dora-Rouge?
That people were to be the caretakers of the animals
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When Angel emerges from the water, who is walking toward the shore?
Tulik, Dora-Rouge, and her mother
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Why does Dora-Rouge scold Angel?
The water is too cold for swimming, she is showing her bare fanny, and she lost her shoe
43
What day of the week did Hannah come to see Angela?
Sunday
44
Where did Hannah live?
Hardy
45
Where did they go that was more private?
Tulik's house
46
What does Angel wish she had when looking at Hannah?
A map, something fixed, a road in, a landmark, a bond
47
How did Bush describe Hannah?
Like a wall, a place with no foundation
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What was the name of Tulik's house?
Lynx House
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What was Tulik's fence made from?
Whalebone
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Who is inside Tulik's house when they arrive?
A young boy and Auntie
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What did Tulik do when they entered the house?
Sat by an old wooden radio and mended fishing nets
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What does Angel realize during the silence in the house?
Hannah is more afraid of her than Angel is afraid of Hannah
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What does Hannah finally say?
I never hit you.
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What does Angel see herself as in Hannah's eyes?
The accuser, a sign of her guilt
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What does Dora-Rouge hear during the visit?
A baby crying
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Although Hannah didn't lay hands on Angel, she did use...
hot wire, fire, teeth
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What kind of rage does Angel feel?
A futile anger that had no practical use in the world
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What does Angel feel from the others in the room?
Pity
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What flew over as Hannah left?
The mail plane
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What does Bush do when she returns and sees Angel weeping?
She tells her it wasn't Hannah's fault she was that way and held her in her lap
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How long did Angel have to wait to see Hannah again?
Two weeks, when she was dying
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Why did the women get evicted from Mrs. Lampier's?
They said it was too small for so many people, but it could have been retaliation due to Bush's involvement in the meetings about the dams
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Who offered them a place to live?
Tulik
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Who is allowed to be messy in Tulik's house?
His dog, Mika
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Due to the lighting, what does Angel compare to Tulik's house?
Pangaea
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How has the house's color changed?
It used to be white, but is now brown and rotting
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What does Tulik look for on the small globe?
Where eqrthquake aftershocks might occur
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What does Tulik believe about life?
There was always balance
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What is Tulik good at, despite having been snow-blinded?
Hunting
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What do the young people call Tulik?
Grandfather
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What is Grandson's real name?
Calvin
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Where does Angel finally learn Grandson's real name?
Year later, in court
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What does Auntie wear that only a few people at the Fat-Eaters wear?
Glasses
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Auntie is a star...
trapper
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What is Auntie working on to keep her hands busy?
A dark blue quilt
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Why did Bush and Auntie hit it off like old friends?
They were both change-minded
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What made Bush and Auntie seem so much younger than they were?
They were both idealistic
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What does Auntie always carry with her?
Her medicine bag made of soft white doeskin
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What does Angel say the women try to hide?
Their softness
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When put together, Angel says she would like to be a combination of ...
Bush and Auntie, with a large portion of Dora-Rouge
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Who is Luce?
A tiny woman from a southern reservation who stayed at Tulik's from time to time
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What does Luce often say when reading the newspaper with a magnifying glass?
It's time we stop this." and "This must end.
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What does Angel refuse when they move into Tulik's?
She will not sleep on a cot anymore
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What is the solution to the sleeping problem?
A sleeping platform
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After seeing the sleeping platform, what does Angel compare a cot to?
A room at the Hilton
86
What does Angel use when sleeping?
Agnes's coat
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What does Angel learn is like beauty and only skin deep?
Privacy
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What does Angel keep in her corner of Tulik's house?
Amber, a pillow, her hairbrush, and pencils
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Who does Angel grow close to?
Tulik
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When did Dora-Rouge begin to fail (healthwise)?
Since losing Agnes
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When does Tulik say a person is strong?
When they feel the land
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What does Angel say is becoming the same thing?
Her heart and the beat of the land
93
Who did they receive a letter from?
John Husk addressed to Agnes
94
How much did LaRue buy the Raven for?
125
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What day of the month should John Husk arrive?
The 5th
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Why do they think John Husk did not receive the letter they sent him?
Their mail was being intercepted

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