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Prologue

Reading Check

1. The “Indian Head test pattern” (Prologue)

2. Thanksgiving (Prologue)

Short Answer

1. They are the generation of Indigenous Americans born in cities. (Prologue)

2. Assimilation was supposed to happen since Indigenous people were removed from their people and their land. (Prologue)

Part 1

Reading Check

1. His identity as an Indigenous person (Part 1)

2. A documentary (Part 1)

3. A protest (Part 1)

4. He pretends to be his mother (Part 1)

Short Answer

1. She views him as a medicine man whose appearance is different because he is different on the inside. (Part 1)

2. He wants Tony to help him rob the powwow in Oakland. (Part 1)

3. He might feel torn because he is half-white, half-Indigenous. (Part 1)

4. The quote symbolizes how traditional Indigenous homes and communities were destroyed so that cities could be built. (Part 1)

Part 2

Reading Check

1. Edwin’s mother’s boyfriend (Part 2)

2. Phoenix (Part 2)

3. Powwow regalia (Part 2)

4. Dene interviews Orvil and his brothers for his documentary project.