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Ceremony is a vehicle for belonging—to a family, to a people, and to the land” (37).
1. What was the author’s most-remembered childhood ceremony? (33,34)
2. Why did her view of that ceremony change in adolescence? (35,36)
3. How does she feel about the ceremony now? (36-end)
4. Look at the picture of the Carlisle Indian School students. Study the details.
What is your response to the picture? What happened to the students? What does this mean for future generations of indigenous peoples?
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5) How are some of the ideas in this episode similar to the ones we are reading about in Braiding Sweetgrass?
6) How is the “smoking ceremony” with a sprinkling of cornmeal like the “coffee ceremony” in Braiding Sweetgrass?
7) How are the Zuni maps different than the ones we are used to using?
8) Think about the following passage and comment on it, after doing your research about the Carlisle Indian School:
“I knew that in the long-ago times our people raised their thanks in morning songs, in prayer, and the offering of sacred tobacco. But at that time in our family history we didn’t have sacred tobacco and we didn’t know the songs—they’d been taken away from my grandfather at the doors of the boarding school. But history moves in a circle and here we were, the next generation, back to the loon-filled lakes of our ancestors, back to canoes” (35).
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