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Grandfather is Oona’s grandfather. According to Ojibway tradition, she always greets him with her eyes cast down to signal her deep respect. Grandfather, a kindhearted man, always greets Oona warmly in return. He encourages her to cultivate her meditation skills and teaches her how to interpret her dreams, enabling her to foretell the future. When Oona’s community learns that strangers are coming to displace them, Grandfather leads his family deep into the forest, to unforgiving, boggy land, hoping this will deter the settlers from finding them. His family creates a small village there, and Grandfather becomes the village leader, successfully evading European colonists for over two years. Grandfather is a wise, intuitive, and peaceful man. After settlers discover the family and move them to a reservation, Grandfather encourages his family to embrace the good in the strangers who are taking over their land, as he believes that the colonists (who practice Christianity) and the Native Americans share many values—like charity and brotherly love. It saddens Grandfather that incoming settlers have no desire to learn about Native American culture or live in peaceful harmony with Native Americans.
Grandfather Quotes in Night Flying Woman
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Ni-bo-wi-se-gwe
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These strangers […] are again asking the Ojibway to mark a paper. […] The Ojibway to the east have made the mark, and now they are on the big water where they must stay forever. The strangers promised never to enter their forests but they came anyway[.]
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The people […] welcomed the stranger who had traveled with him. They prepared a feast and made a place of rest for them.
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He said that they must mark a paper before a man called Agent, and afterward they would be given food and clothing.
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Each ricing time the man will come for the children. If they live in the longhouse of the school they will never know our ways. Our strength will be lost. If we move close to the big village, the children will stay home at night and we can still teach them the old ways. We must decide—shall we stay separate and not see the children from ricing to planting, or shall we speak to them each night about the good of our people?
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New Homes, Old Ways
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But always there was the sorrow that the sickness brought, and life was shortened by it. Many times the sickness took mothers and fathers. The children who were left behind were raised as little brothers and sisters by those for whom they were namesakes.
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The New Ways
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They say we must forget what was taught by our people and we must believe only what we learn now at the church.
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Grandfather Quotes in Night Flying Woman
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These strangers […] are again asking the Ojibway to mark a paper. […] The Ojibway to the east have made the mark, and now they are on the big water where they must stay forever. The strangers promised never to enter their forests but they came anyway[.]
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White Earth
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The people […] welcomed the stranger who had traveled with him. They prepared a feast and made a place of rest for them.
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He said that they must mark a paper before a man called Agent, and afterward they would be given food and clothing.
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Each ricing time the man will come for the children. If they live in the longhouse of the school they will never know our ways. Our strength will be lost. If we move close to the big village, the children will stay home at night and we can still teach them the old ways. We must decide—shall we stay separate and not see the children from ricing to planting, or shall we speak to them each night about the good of our people?
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New Homes, Old Ways
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But always there was the sorrow that the sickness brought, and life was shortened by it. Many times the sickness took mothers and fathers. The children who were left behind were raised as little brothers and sisters by those for whom they were namesakes.
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The New Ways
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They say we must forget what was taught by our people and we must believe only what we learn now at the church.
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