Firekeeper's Daughter

After Lily and Daunis go to purchase their textbooks together, Jamie picks up Daunis so she can take him to the annual powwow. Daunis does not tell her mother that she’s going with Jamie. On the ride to the powwow, Jamie asks Daunis more questions about the tribe, their land, and the payments families get from the casino. Jamie also asks Daunis what happened to her dad, despite it being private. Though ashamed of her family story, Daunis nonetheless tells him that her mom was 16 when Daunis’s dad, a poor Ojibwe from the reservation on Sugar Island with a hockey talent that promised to get him off the reservation, impregnated her. On the night her mother told her father she was pregnant, they got in a car accident where her dad broke both his legs. Because he didn’t get the proper medical treatment, his legs never healed properly. Daunis tells Jamie that her mother’s father was the mayor of Salute Set. Marie and kept her father from getting a job anywhere nearby. Daunis reveals that her mother’s parents were/are racist toward Native Americans, even before one “knocked up” their daughter. After her father moved to Ontario for work, he died in a logging accident when she and Levi were seven.