6th ~ The Absolute Truth of a Part-time Indian by Crystal Tate https://padlet.com/ctate3/8pwwe1l36b2o Themes en-us 2017-10-17 20:33:16 UTC 2026-01-02 03:26:30 UTC hello@padlet.com "But we reservation Indians don't get to realize our dreams. We don't get those chances. Or choices. We're just poor. That's all we are." (p. 13) ctate3 https://padlet.com/ctate3/8pwwe1l36b2o/wish/198018720 CT]]> 2017-10-17 20:33:16 UTC https://padlet.com/ctate3/8pwwe1l36b2o/wish/198018720 "Plenty of Indians have died because they were drunk. And plenty of drunken Indians have killed other drunken Indians." (p. 158) ctate3 https://padlet.com/ctate3/8pwwe1l36b2o/wish/198018722 CT]]> 2017-10-17 20:33:16 UTC https://padlet.com/ctate3/8pwwe1l36b2o/wish/198018722 "And we let it happen. We let them pick on you." (p. 41) ctate3 https://padlet.com/ctate3/8pwwe1l36b2o/wish/198018723 CT]]> 2017-10-17 20:33:16 UTC https://padlet.com/ctate3/8pwwe1l36b2o/wish/198018723 "'You can do it.' ...Do you understand about amazing it is to hear that from an adult? Do you know how amazing it is to hear that from anybody? It's one of the simplest sentences in the world, just four words, but they're the four hugest words in the world when they're put together." (p. 189) ctate3 https://padlet.com/ctate3/8pwwe1l36b2o/wish/198018724 CT]]> 2017-10-17 20:33:16 UTC https://padlet.com/ctate3/8pwwe1l36b2o/wish/198018724 "I think Rowdy might be the most important person in my life. Maybe more important than my family. Can your best friend be more important than your family?" (p. 24) ctate3 https://padlet.com/ctate3/8pwwe1l36b2o/wish/198018726 CT]]> 2017-10-17 20:33:16 UTC https://padlet.com/ctate3/8pwwe1l36b2o/wish/198018726 "I suppose [my dad] is depressed. I suppose my sister is depressed. I suppose the whole family is depressed." (p.40) ctate3 https://padlet.com/ctate3/8pwwe1l36b2o/wish/198018728 CT]]> 2017-10-17 20:33:16 UTC https://padlet.com/ctate3/8pwwe1l36b2o/wish/198018728 "During one week when I was little, Dad got stopped three times for DWI: Driving While Indian." (p. 46) ctate3 https://padlet.com/ctate3/8pwwe1l36b2o/wish/198018730 CT]]> 2017-10-17 20:33:16 UTC https://padlet.com/ctate3/8pwwe1l36b2o/wish/198018730 "Poverty = empty refrigerator + empty stomach" (p.8) ctate3 https://padlet.com/ctate3/8pwwe1l36b2o/wish/198018733 CT]]> 2017-10-17 20:33:16 UTC https://padlet.com/ctate3/8pwwe1l36b2o/wish/198018733 "I am zero on the rez. And if you subtract zero from zero, you still have zero." (p.16) ctate3 https://padlet.com/ctate3/8pwwe1l36b2o/wish/198018736 CT]]> 2017-10-17 20:33:16 UTC https://padlet.com/ctate3/8pwwe1l36b2o/wish/198018736 "And if you're fourteen years old, like me, and you're stuttering and lisping, then you become the biggest retard in the world." (p. 4 youngoma000 https://padlet.com/ctate3/8pwwe1l36b2o/wish/198028482 O.Y]]> 2017-10-17 21:06:56 UTC https://padlet.com/ctate3/8pwwe1l36b2o/wish/198028482 ¨Everybody on the rez calls me a retard about twice a day.¨(P.60) aitabmar000 https://padlet.com/ctate3/8pwwe1l36b2o/wish/198028886 M.A

]]> 2017-10-17 21:08:23 UTC https://padlet.com/ctate3/8pwwe1l36b2o/wish/198028886 "Your songs and stories and language and dancing...We weren't trying to kill Indian people. We were trying to kill Indian culture." (p. 36) garcieri000 https://padlet.com/ctate3/8pwwe1l36b2o/wish/198028977 E.G]]> 2017-10-17 21:08:44 UTC https://padlet.com/ctate3/8pwwe1l36b2o/wish/198028977 washid_a000 https://padlet.com/ctate3/8pwwe1l36b2o/wish/198028988 2017-10-17 21:08:46 UTC https://padlet.com/ctate3/8pwwe1l36b2o/wish/198028988 "The bullies would pick me up, spin me in circles, put their finger down on my skull, and say, "I want to go there." (p.3) bielzjay002 https://padlet.com/ctate3/8pwwe1l36b2o/wish/198028999 JB]]> 2017-10-17 21:08:47 UTC https://padlet.com/ctate3/8pwwe1l36b2o/wish/198028999 "Junior, sweetheart," Mom said. "I'm sorry, but we don't have any money for Oscar." (p.10) sanerjos000 https://padlet.com/ctate3/8pwwe1l36b2o/wish/198029303 JS]]> 2017-10-17 21:10:09 UTC https://padlet.com/ctate3/8pwwe1l36b2o/wish/198029303 " And sure sometimes, my family misses a meal, and sleep is the only thing we have for dinner" (p. 8) youngoma000 https://padlet.com/ctate3/8pwwe1l36b2o/wish/198029850 O.Y.]]> 2017-10-17 21:12:27 UTC https://padlet.com/ctate3/8pwwe1l36b2o/wish/198029850 ¨Junior I said. She laughed and told her girlfriend at the next desk that my name Junior. They both laughed. Word spread around the room and pretty soon everybody was laughing.¨(P.60) aitabmar000 https://padlet.com/ctate3/8pwwe1l36b2o/wish/198030008 M.A]]> 2017-10-17 21:13:12 UTC https://padlet.com/ctate3/8pwwe1l36b2o/wish/198030008 "I wish I were magical, but I am a poor-ass reservation kid living with his poor-ass family on the poor-ass Spokane Indian Reservation." (p.7) bielzjay002 https://padlet.com/ctate3/8pwwe1l36b2o/wish/198030244 JB]]> 2017-10-17 21:14:20 UTC https://padlet.com/ctate3/8pwwe1l36b2o/wish/198030244 "Come on," I said. "Who has the most hope?" "White people," my parents said at the same time. (p. 45) aguilcry000 https://padlet.com/ctate3/8pwwe1l36b2o/wish/198030653 CA]]> 2017-10-17 21:16:00 UTC https://padlet.com/ctate3/8pwwe1l36b2o/wish/198030653 "Thats how we were taught to teach you. We were supposed to kill the Indian to save the child." (p. 35) youngoma000 https://padlet.com/ctate3/8pwwe1l36b2o/wish/198030659 O.Y.]]> 2017-10-17 21:16:02 UTC https://padlet.com/ctate3/8pwwe1l36b2o/wish/198030659 "So obviously, I looked goofy on the outside, but it was the inside stuff that was the worst." (p. 3) nguyedan003 https://padlet.com/ctate3/8pwwe1l36b2o/wish/201032865 D.N]]> 2017-10-26 21:08:43 UTC https://padlet.com/ctate3/8pwwe1l36b2o/wish/201032865 "How stupid was I? What kind of job can a reservation indian boy get?" (p.10 nguyedan003 https://padlet.com/ctate3/8pwwe1l36b2o/wish/201033181 D. N]]> 2017-10-26 21:10:25 UTC https://padlet.com/ctate3/8pwwe1l36b2o/wish/201033181 "I didn't literally kill Indians. We were supposed to make you give up being Indian." (p.35) nguyedan003 https://padlet.com/ctate3/8pwwe1l36b2o/wish/201033523 D.N]]> 2017-10-26 21:11:53 UTC https://padlet.com/ctate3/8pwwe1l36b2o/wish/201033523 "Hey its hydrohead. Yep, those bastards were making fun of my brain disorder." (p.21) nguyedan003 https://padlet.com/ctate3/8pwwe1l36b2o/wish/201034088 D.N]]> 2017-10-26 21:14:10 UTC https://padlet.com/ctate3/8pwwe1l36b2o/wish/201034088 "He (dad) left on Christmas Eve and came back on January 2" (p.150 bielzjay002 https://padlet.com/ctate3/8pwwe1l36b2o/wish/201353004 JB]]> 2017-10-27 20:11:58 UTC https://padlet.com/ctate3/8pwwe1l36b2o/wish/201353004 "When the holidays rolled around, we didn't have any money for presents, so Dad did what he always does when we don't have enough money. He took that little money we did have and ran away to get drunk" (p.150) bielzjay002 https://padlet.com/ctate3/8pwwe1l36b2o/wish/201353829 JB]]> 2017-10-27 20:16:01 UTC https://padlet.com/ctate3/8pwwe1l36b2o/wish/201353829 ¨My head was so big that little Indian skulls orbited around it.¨ (p3) youngoma000 https://padlet.com/ctate3/8pwwe1l36b2o/wish/201355989 O.Y]]> 2017-10-27 20:27:46 UTC https://padlet.com/ctate3/8pwwe1l36b2o/wish/201355989 “Instead, it was Gordy who defended me. He stood with his textbook and dropped it. Whomp!”(175) aitabmar000 https://padlet.com/ctate3/8pwwe1l36b2o/wish/201604184 M.A]]> 2017-10-30 06:31:12 UTC https://padlet.com/ctate3/8pwwe1l36b2o/wish/201604184 ¨ I was still a potential killer. So mostly the called me names. Lots of names.¨ (p. 63 youngoma000 https://padlet.com/ctate3/8pwwe1l36b2o/wish/203116728 O.Y.]]> 2017-11-02 20:46:29 UTC https://padlet.com/ctate3/8pwwe1l36b2o/wish/203116728 "I am not even writing down this story the way I actually talk, because I'd have to fill with stutters and lisps, and then you'd be wondering why you're reading a story written by a retard." (p.39) doranpat000 https://padlet.com/ctate3/8pwwe1l36b2o/wish/203117518 P.D]]> 2017-11-02 20:49:33 UTC https://padlet.com/ctate3/8pwwe1l36b2o/wish/203117518 ¨ I fell down. One brother picked me up, dusted me off, then kneed me in the balls. I fell down again, holding my tender crotch, and tried not to scream. And the Andruss brothers laughed and walked away.¨ (p.21 youngoma000 https://padlet.com/ctate3/8pwwe1l36b2o/wish/203117595 O.Y.]]> 2017-11-02 20:49:51 UTC https://padlet.com/ctate3/8pwwe1l36b2o/wish/203117595 "I looked and talked and dreamed and walked differently than everybody else". (pg.110) doranpat000 https://padlet.com/ctate3/8pwwe1l36b2o/wish/203117982 P.D]]> 2017-11-02 20:51:20 UTC https://padlet.com/ctate3/8pwwe1l36b2o/wish/203117982 "Nobody in my family had ever gone near a collage". doranpat000 https://padlet.com/ctate3/8pwwe1l36b2o/wish/203118706 P.D]]> 2017-11-02 20:53:56 UTC https://padlet.com/ctate3/8pwwe1l36b2o/wish/203118706 ¨´Are you poor?´ I couldnt lie to her anymore. ´yes´ i said. ´Im poor.´ I figured she was going to march out of my life right there and then. But she didnt. Instead she kissed me.¨ (p. 127) youngoma000 https://padlet.com/ctate3/8pwwe1l36b2o/wish/203119865 O.Y.]]> 2017-11-02 20:58:18 UTC https://padlet.com/ctate3/8pwwe1l36b2o/wish/203119865 "A bullet only costs about two cents, and anybody can afford that". (pg.14) doranpat000 https://padlet.com/ctate3/8pwwe1l36b2o/wish/203120845 P.D]]> 2017-11-02 21:02:24 UTC https://padlet.com/ctate3/8pwwe1l36b2o/wish/203120845 ¨Gordy and I laughed. He was an extremely weird dude. But he was the smartest I´d ever known. He would always be the smartest person I´d ever know.¨ (p.98) youngoma000 https://padlet.com/ctate3/8pwwe1l36b2o/wish/203121260 O.Y.]]> 2017-11-02 21:04:18 UTC https://padlet.com/ctate3/8pwwe1l36b2o/wish/203121260 "Did you know that Indians are living proof that niggers fuck buffalo". (p. 64) doranpat000 https://padlet.com/ctate3/8pwwe1l36b2o/wish/203121647 P.D]]> 2017-11-02 21:05:48 UTC https://padlet.com/ctate3/8pwwe1l36b2o/wish/203121647 "'I'm sick of Indian guys who treat white women like bowling trophies." (pg.115) doranpat000 https://padlet.com/ctate3/8pwwe1l36b2o/wish/203121920 P.D]]> 2017-11-02 21:06:50 UTC https://padlet.com/ctate3/8pwwe1l36b2o/wish/203121920 Eugene was a good guy, and like an uncle to me, but he was always drunk.¨ (p.70 youngoma000 https://padlet.com/ctate3/8pwwe1l36b2o/wish/203122024 O.Y.]]> 2017-11-02 21:07:18 UTC https://padlet.com/ctate3/8pwwe1l36b2o/wish/203122024 "I suppose [my dad] is depressed. I suppose my sister is depressed. I suppose the whole family is depressed." (p.40) doranpat000 https://padlet.com/ctate3/8pwwe1l36b2o/wish/203122200 P.D]]> 2017-11-02 21:08:19 UTC https://padlet.com/ctate3/8pwwe1l36b2o/wish/203122200 "My mother and father weren't home, so I turned to my grandmother for advice"(pg.68). doranpat000 https://padlet.com/ctate3/8pwwe1l36b2o/wish/203122315 P.D]]> 2017-11-02 21:08:57 UTC https://padlet.com/ctate3/8pwwe1l36b2o/wish/203122315 "I think Rowdy might be the most important person in my life. Maybe more important than my family. Can your best friend be more important than your family?" (p. 24) doranpat000 https://padlet.com/ctate3/8pwwe1l36b2o/wish/203123553 P.D]]> 2017-11-02 21:14:47 UTC https://padlet.com/ctate3/8pwwe1l36b2o/wish/203123553 ¨Man Gordy was smart . I wished I could take him to the rez and let him educate Rowdy. Of Course Rowdy would probably punch him in the face Gordy until he was brain dead. Or maybe Rowdy, Gordy and I can become a superhero trio, fighting for truth justice, and the Native American way.¨ (pg.131) doranpat000 https://padlet.com/ctate3/8pwwe1l36b2o/wish/203123666 P.D]]> 2017-11-02 21:15:31 UTC https://padlet.com/ctate3/8pwwe1l36b2o/wish/203123666 ¨I suppose he is depressed. I suppose my sister is depressed. I suppose the whole family is depressed.¨ (p.41) youngoma000 https://padlet.com/ctate3/8pwwe1l36b2o/wish/203124594 O.Y.]]> 2017-11-02 21:20:19 UTC https://padlet.com/ctate3/8pwwe1l36b2o/wish/203124594 "Line is my best human friend and he cares about me, so he would always tell me the truth" (p.16) doranpat000 https://padlet.com/ctate3/8pwwe1l36b2o/wish/203125052 P.D]]> 2017-11-02 21:22:53 UTC https://padlet.com/ctate3/8pwwe1l36b2o/wish/203125052 "Rowdy has protected me since we were born". (p.17) doranpat000 https://padlet.com/ctate3/8pwwe1l36b2o/wish/203125145 P.D]]> 2017-11-02 21:23:24 UTC https://padlet.com/ctate3/8pwwe1l36b2o/wish/203125145 "I didn't understand how wearing a Halloween costume could become a political statement, I admired her [Penelope] commitment"(pg.78). doranpat000 https://padlet.com/ctate3/8pwwe1l36b2o/wish/203125307 P.D]]> 2017-11-02 21:24:07 UTC https://padlet.com/ctate3/8pwwe1l36b2o/wish/203125307 ¨I couldn´t let them get away with that shit. I wasn´t just defending myself. I was defending Indians, black people, and buffalo. So I punched Roger in the face.¨ (p.65) doranpat000 https://padlet.com/ctate3/8pwwe1l36b2o/wish/203125924 P.D]]> 2017-11-02 21:26:45 UTC https://padlet.com/ctate3/8pwwe1l36b2o/wish/203125924 "They were laughing at my name" (p.60) doranpat000 https://padlet.com/ctate3/8pwwe1l36b2o/wish/203126301 P.D]]> 2017-11-02 21:28:41 UTC https://padlet.com/ctate3/8pwwe1l36b2o/wish/203126301 doranpat000 https://padlet.com/ctate3/8pwwe1l36b2o/wish/203126596 2017-11-02 21:30:49 UTC https://padlet.com/ctate3/8pwwe1l36b2o/wish/203126596