The timeline below shows where the term Nokomis appears in Firekeeper’s Daughter. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 1
Suddenly, a bird flies into the window. Gramma Pearl, Daunis’s Anishinaabe nokomis, would say this is a bad sign; GrandMary would say it’s just chance. Daunis has...
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Chapter 2
...you, so Daunis refuses. Now, it’s time to drive Granny June to lunch at the Nokomis-Mishomis Elder Center and then head to work.
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Chapter 57
...women. Auntie tells a story about a young Nish girl who’d gather pansies with her nokomis every summer. The girl’s nokomis would set aside the yellow pansies, but she wouldn’t tell...
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