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Ignatia Broker is the book’s author. She appears as a character in the story’s prologue, describing her life before she moves on to tell her great-great-grandmother Oona’s life story. In describing her own life, Ignatia reveals that Native Americans continue to face oppression in the United States. Ignatia points out how hard it is for Native Americans like herself to find work, earn a living wage, rent a home, and access resources and support when they leave their reservations and attempt to integrate into American society. Ignatia’s insights thereby suggest that Native Americans like herself feel like unwelcome outsiders, even though they are in their native land. Ignatia also has a strong sense of community: she empowers other Native Americans, and she shares Oona’s life story to inform her readers about Ojibway culture. The Ojibway consider storytelling deeply important. Their traditional stories function as ways to share indigenous knowledge, skills, and values. Ignatia embodies the role of a traditional storyteller in sharing her people’s story. In doing so, she shows that Native American culture survives, just as her great-great-grandmother Oona would have wanted.
Ignatia Broker Quotes in Night Flying Woman
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Prologue: The Forest Cries
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Now the neighborhood is only four blocks long and two blocks wide, whittled down by urban renewal and the freeways which reach their tentacles all around us.
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Get LitCharts A+Our paydays were on different days and so whoever had money lent carfare and bought meat and vegetables. […] This was how we got a toehold in the urban areas—by helping each other.
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I answered many advertisements and always I was met with the words, “I'm sorry but we don’t hire Indians because they only last the two weeks till payday. Then they quit.”
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No Indian family dared approach the relief and welfare agencies of the Twin Cities. They knew that they would only be given a bus ticket and be told to go back to the reservation where the government would take care of them as usual.
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“What good are these tales in today's world?” asked many people, never realizing that the Ojibway tales teach a philosophy for living. They tell of the purity of man and nature and keeping them in balance.
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Ignatia Broker Quotes in Night Flying Woman
The Night Flying Woman quotes below are all either spoken by Ignatia Broker or refer to Ignatia Broker. 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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Prologue: The Forest Cries
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Now the neighborhood is only four blocks long and two blocks wide, whittled down by urban renewal and the freeways which reach their tentacles all around us.
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Get LitCharts A+Our paydays were on different days and so whoever had money lent carfare and bought meat and vegetables. […] This was how we got a toehold in the urban areas—by helping each other.
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I answered many advertisements and always I was met with the words, “I'm sorry but we don’t hire Indians because they only last the two weeks till payday. Then they quit.”
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No Indian family dared approach the relief and welfare agencies of the Twin Cities. They knew that they would only be given a bus ticket and be told to go back to the reservation where the government would take care of them as usual.
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“What good are these tales in today's world?” asked many people, never realizing that the Ojibway tales teach a philosophy for living. They tell of the purity of man and nature and keeping them in balance.
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