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¨I have learned little of the Indians as yet. I know only what they are not¨(55).

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Mark promises to spread Calamity's ashes once he dies,¨I'll do it Calamity. It's a promise"(134).

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"But if Keetah is not strong enough to return by choice and not by failure, she will never again be able to live in either(outside world or inside)(p.124).

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"But now many boxes have fallen from the trees and other trees have fallen on the grave houses"(114).

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"Come, swimmer... I am glad to be alive now that you have come to this good place where we can play together. Take this sweet food. Hold it tight, younger bother"(44).

Jim is talking about the first nations myths.

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"On the kitchen table was a loaf of bread, still warm from the oven" (112).

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"Mark sat by Calamity through the deep night,until the hand he held slipped from his,and the period between breaths grew longer and longer" (Pg.134).

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¨Even Mark´s ear had begun its attunement to the strange tongue¨(75).

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"There's a good bit of agnostic in all of us, Calamity. None of us knows much-- only enough to trust to reach out a hand in the dark" (134).

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"On the bank of the river I heard the owl call my name" (149).

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"Where was Mrs. Hudson?" and when Marta replied that Mrs. Hudson was ill, he said, "Then I must take her communion"(96-97).

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"All day long on his way back to Kingcome..." (148).

This is where Mark realizes that he is going to die.

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"But there is one thing you must understand. They will not thank you. Even if you should leave a broken man, they will not thank you. There is no word for thank you in Kwakwala"(p.20).

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"Walk straight on, my son. Do not look back. Do not turn your head. You are going to the land of our lord." (Pg.159)

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"In the early days we buried our dead in a square box and we placed the box about a third of the way up a large tree,and we cut off the limbs below the box so the animals could not reach it, and later, other boxes were hauled up by ropes and each family had its own burial tree"(114).

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" But mark had seen the light of the old old ways reflected on the faces like the glow from a dying campfire,and he knew that it was the hamatsa who had been freed at last from his holy madness and was at peace in the deep woods" (118).

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"She does not like Gordon?"

"She likes him."

"Then what is the matter with him?"

"Gordon is Che-kwa-la, which means fast moving water," Jim said slowly, "and Keetah is the pool" (48).

Jim and Mark talk about Keetah and why he is going to marry her.

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"We went in the sixty-foot canoe to buy gifts for my uncles potlatch, and we spent all we had and gave away all our blankets. That winter we were cold and the children cried"(92).

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"i think you've broken a hip, Calamity. what you need is a trip to Alert Bay. If the hospital ship's close enough, she'll take you, and if she's too far to get her, I'll take you"(133).

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" Mark, he said, the men have asked me to tell you that when you are ready to build a new vicarage, they will help you"(Pg.87).

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"There was pride in his eyes without arrogance"(13).

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"They found Mrs.Hudson propped on pillows,her breath coming in small,short gasps,and mark who ha cherished the unchristain idea that Mrs.Hudson's old nose was badly out of place because the Bishop was housed in the new vicarage instead of her house,as had long been his custom,was ashamed of himself and sure she was about to die"(97).

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"They are ashamed to dip their food in the oil of the oolachon which we call gleena. THey say to their parent, Don't do it that way. The white man does it this way" (62).

This is how the teenagers aren't respecting traditions.

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"This is the village. If you go there, from the tine you tie up at the float in the inlet, the village is you. But there is one thing you must understand. They will not thank you. Even if you should leave a broken man, they will not thank you in Kwakwala (Pg.20).

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"Past the village flowed the river,like time like life itself,waiting for the swimmer to come again on his way to the climax of his adventurous life, and to the end for which he had been made" (159).

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Mark tries to understand the First Nations language, "'Jowedaino,' and Mark listened more carefully than he has ever listened to any work in his enitire life and could not tell if the word was Zowodaino or Chowudaino"(40).

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"how do you tell the indians apart" disrespectful not only because its racist but even because they do not consider mark as one of them.

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Gordon's mom dies in childbirth. Also, at the end of the chapter, the Bishop says something profound in a letter to Mark.