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George is an Indigenous man who is involved with the American Indian Movement. He and his wife Vera befriend Clara and others via the Indian Friendship Center. They help Clara, Lucy, and Kendra move into their new home, and they help Clara find her way to Mariah. Unlike the other Indigenous men depicted in the novel, George is proud, happy, and comfortable in his own skin. He doesn’t let white people intimidate him. He thus represents the kind of person Kenny, Howie, and others should and would be, if the residential school systems and broader social prejudices hadn’t destroyed their heritage, identities, and psyches.
George Quotes in Five Little Indians
The Five Little Indians quotes below are all either spoken by George or refer to George. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 8: Clara
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She didn’t have to call [John Lennon] this time. With the car back in order after the border pillaging, Clara walked around toward the driver’s door and that was enough for him to know. He ran to her through the purple flowering weeds, tongue lolling and happy. Weeds. She remembered George telling her once that Indians were like weeds to the white people. Something to be wiped out so their idea of a garden could grow. He told her weeds were indigenous flowers. “Clara, you’re an indigenous flower. Don’t ever think of yourself as a weed.” That’s what he said to her.
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George Quotes in Five Little Indians
The Five Little Indians quotes below are all either spoken by George or refer to George. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Chapter 8: Clara
Quotes
She didn’t have to call [John Lennon] this time. With the car back in order after the border pillaging, Clara walked around toward the driver’s door and that was enough for him to know. He ran to her through the purple flowering weeds, tongue lolling and happy. Weeds. She remembered George telling her once that Indians were like weeds to the white people. Something to be wiped out so their idea of a garden could grow. He told her weeds were indigenous flowers. “Clara, you’re an indigenous flower. Don’t ever think of yourself as a weed.” That’s what he said to her.
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