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Sagastis is Howie’s mother. She has a close relationship with her sister, Auntie Mae, and it’s on a visit to Mae that she loses Howie to the Arrowhead Bay Mission School. Instead of returning to Saskatchewan, she stays in British Columbia and tries to advocate for his return until she, Mae, and Charlie finally rescue Howie. Subsequently, she takes him to the United States. When Howie ends up in prison, Sagastis returns to her home in Saskatchewan, where she dies of a heart attack several years before Howie’s release.
Sagastis Quotes in Five Little Indians
The Five Little Indians quotes below are all either spoken by Sagastis or refer to Sagastis. 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 16: Howie
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He knelt and started planting the tiger lily bulbs in front of the headstone, remembering a time, when he was very little, when she would tell him the old stories about Tiger Lily and Weesageechak, and the living stories of her parents and theirs. He knew she would love having a bright-orange spray rising, year after year. The flowers reminded him of her sturdy beauty. He rose and shook the dark earth from his work gloves, picked up his tools, gave his handiwork one last look and headed for his truck.
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Sagastis Quotes in Five Little Indians
The Five Little Indians quotes below are all either spoken by Sagastis or refer to Sagastis. 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 16: Howie
Quotes
He knelt and started planting the tiger lily bulbs in front of the headstone, remembering a time, when he was very little, when she would tell him the old stories about Tiger Lily and Weesageechak, and the living stories of her parents and theirs. He knew she would love having a bright-orange spray rising, year after year. The flowers reminded him of her sturdy beauty. He rose and shook the dark earth from his work gloves, picked up his tools, gave his handiwork one last look and headed for his truck.
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