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Randall Lafournais is Cappy’s older brother and Doe Lafournais’s oldest son. Randall is interested in traditional Chippewa medicine and culture, making regular trips to meditate in the sweat lodge he built in his backyard, and becoming an expert dancer who regularly participates in the community’s powwows. Cappy and Joe tease Randall for his womanizing ways and particularly the fact that he attracts so many white women. Although Randall does seem genuinely interested in Chippewa medicine, Cappy and Joe sometimes feel that he is doing it for show. Randall, who is one of the only young people in the book who regularly practices Chippewa medicine, shows how the culture is being transmitted to younger generations, but also how it can be susceptible to fetishization.
Randall Lafournais Quotes in The Round House
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Chapter 2
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I didn’t like being prayed for. As I turned away I felt the prayers creeping up my spine. But that was Randall, too, always ready to make you feel a little uncomfortable with the earnest superiority of all that he was learning from the elders, even your own elders, for your benefit.
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Chapter 7
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We came to the tree that people call the hanging tree, a huge oak. The sun was in its branches. There were prayer flags, strips of cloth. Red, blue, green, white, the old time Anishinaabe colors of the directions, according to Randall. Some cloths were faded, some new. This was the tree where those ancestors were hanged. None of the killers ever went on trial. I could see the land of their descendants, already full of row crops.
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Randall Lafournais Quotes in The Round House
The The Round House quotes below are all either spoken by Randall Lafournais or refer to Randall Lafournais. 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 2
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I didn’t like being prayed for. As I turned away I felt the prayers creeping up my spine. But that was Randall, too, always ready to make you feel a little uncomfortable with the earnest superiority of all that he was learning from the elders, even your own elders, for your benefit.
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Chapter 7
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We came to the tree that people call the hanging tree, a huge oak. The sun was in its branches. There were prayer flags, strips of cloth. Red, blue, green, white, the old time Anishinaabe colors of the directions, according to Randall. Some cloths were faded, some new. This was the tree where those ancestors were hanged. None of the killers ever went on trial. I could see the land of their descendants, already full of row crops.
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