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=Lesson 16 - Taste of Salt= http://quizlet.com/4058317/vocabu-lit-book-f-lesson-16-flash-cards/

I live with just Maman, and Auntie. Like yours, Djo, my father left long ago, for work. "We were married in the church," Maman says. "Your father was a good man, an honorable man." She uses the past tense. She does not expect him back. Maman is ill most of the time, with fevers that some and go. In the throes of fever she is a visionary. I wonder sometimes if she invented my father in a fever dream.

The clues shes gives do not add up to a substantial person in my mind.

"Your father wanted you to get a good education" is one clue. So Maman enrolled me in the nuns' school, against Auntie's wishes. Handed me over to the nuns.

They recognize a strong back in a black skin," says Auntie.

Maman admires Sister Claire, my headmistress. Auntie does not. Sister is blan. This make Auntie suspicious. The nuns love me, I know, but it is the kind of love you have to work for all the time. They, especially Sister Claire, have plans for who I will be. The possibility of disappointing them hangs over me.

At least, if I disappoint them, I will please Auntie!

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=Lesson 17 - 01' Paul the Mighty Logger= http://quizlet.com/4299851/vocabu-lit-book-f-lesson-17-flash-cards/

Paul stomps around waving his arms for a spell, and allows: "By the Gee-Jumpin' John Henry and the Great Horn Spoon, I'll tame that river or bust a gallus tryin'."

He goes over to another hill and sits down to think out a way to tame a river, forgetting his winter operations entirely. He sits there for three days and forty-seven hours without moving, thinking at top speed all the while, and finally comes to the conclusion that the best thing to do is to take out the kinks. But he knows that taking the kinks out of a river as tricky as this one is apt to be quite a chore, so he keeps on sitting there while he figure out ways and means. Of course, he could dig a new channel and run the rive through that, but that was never Paul's way. He liked to figure out new ways of doing things, even if they were harder.

Meanwhile he's gotten a mite hungry, so he hollers down to camp for Sourdough Sam to bring him up a little popcorn, of which he is very fond. so Sam hitches up a four house team while his helpers are popping the corn, and soon arrives at Paul's feet with a wagon load.

Paul eats popcorn and thinks. The faster he thinks the faster he eats, and the faster he eats, the faster he thinks, until finally his hands are moving so fast that nothing shows but a blur, and they make a wind that is uprooting trees all around him. His chewing sounds like a couple hundred coffee grinders all going at once. In practically no time at all the ground for three miles and a quarter in every direction is covered to ta depth of eighteen inches with popcorn scraps, and several thousand small birds and animals, seeing the ground all white and the air filled with what looks like snowflakes, conclude that a blizzard is upon them and immediately freeze to death, furnishing the men with pot pies for some days.

But to get back to 01' Paul's Problem. Just before the popcorn is all gone, he decides that the only practical solution is to hitch Babe, the Mighty Blue Ox, to the river and let him yank it straight.

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=Lesson 18 - speech by Chief Joseph= http://quizlet.com/4434575/vocabu-lit-book-f-lesson-18-flash-cards/

I am tired of talk that comes to nothing. It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and all the broken promises. There has been too much talking by men who had no right to talk. Too many misinterpretations have been made; too many misunderstandings have come up between the white men and the Indians. If the white man wants to live in peace with the Indian he can live in peace. There need be no trouble. Treat all men alike. Give them the same laws. Give them all an even chance to live and grow. All men were made by the same Great Spirit Chief. They are all brothers. The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it. You might as well expect all rivers to run backward as that any man who was born a free man should be contented penned up and denied liberty to go where he pleases. If you tie a horse to a stake, do you expect he will grow fat? If you pen an Indian up on a small spot of earth and compel him to stay there, he will not be contented nor will he grow and prosper. I have asked some of the Great White Chiefs where they get their authority to say to the Indian that he shall stay in one place, while he sees white men going where they please. They cannot tell me.

I only ask of the Government to be treated as all other men are treated. If I cannot go to my own home, let me have a home in a country where my people will not die so fast. I would like to go to Bitter Root Valley. There my people would be happy; where they are now they are dying. Three have died since I left my camp to come to Washington.

When I think of our condition, my heart is heavy. I see men of my own race treated as outlaws and driven from country to country, or shot down like animals.

I know that my race must change. We cannot hold our own with the white men as we are. We only ask an even chance to live as other men live. We ask to be recognized as men. We ask that the same law shall work alike on all men. If an Indian breaks the law, punish him by the law. If a white man breaks the law, punish him also.

Let me be a free man, free to travel, free to stop, free to work, free to trade where I choose, free to choose my own teachers, free to follow the religion of my fathers, free to talk, think and act for myself -- and I will obey every law or submit to the penalty.

Whenever the white man treats the Indian as they treat each other then we shall have no more wars.

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