The Absolute Truth of a Part-time Indian by Crystal Tate https://padlet.com/ctate3/eefx43jb4330 Themes en-us 2017-10-16 23:09:05 UTC 2017-11-01 21:28:07 UTC hello@padlet.com "I am zero on the rez. And if you subtract zero from zero, you still have zero." (p.16) ctate3 https://padlet.com/ctate3/eefx43jb4330/wish/197985016 CT]]> 2017-10-17 19:05:51 UTC https://padlet.com/ctate3/eefx43jb4330/wish/197985016 "Poverty = empty refrigerator + empty stomach" (p.8) ctate3 https://padlet.com/ctate3/eefx43jb4330/wish/197986319 CT]]> 2017-10-17 19:08:30 UTC https://padlet.com/ctate3/eefx43jb4330/wish/197986319 "During one week when I was little, Dad got stopped three times for DWI: Driving While Indian." (p. 46) ctate3 https://padlet.com/ctate3/eefx43jb4330/wish/197986689 CT]]> 2017-10-17 19:09:15 UTC https://padlet.com/ctate3/eefx43jb4330/wish/197986689 "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/eefx43jb4330/wish/197988431 CT]]> 2017-10-17 19:12:51 UTC https://padlet.com/ctate3/eefx43jb4330/wish/197988431 "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/eefx43jb4330/wish/197988769 CT]]> 2017-10-17 19:13:42 UTC https://padlet.com/ctate3/eefx43jb4330/wish/197988769 "'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/eefx43jb4330/wish/197989285 CT]]> 2017-10-17 19:14:46 UTC https://padlet.com/ctate3/eefx43jb4330/wish/197989285 "And we let it happen. We let them pick on you." (p. 41) ctate3 https://padlet.com/ctate3/eefx43jb4330/wish/197990248 CT]]> 2017-10-17 19:16:49 UTC https://padlet.com/ctate3/eefx43jb4330/wish/197990248 "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/eefx43jb4330/wish/197990535 CT]]> 2017-10-17 19:17:22 UTC https://padlet.com/ctate3/eefx43jb4330/wish/197990535 "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/eefx43jb4330/wish/197991099 CT]]> 2017-10-17 19:18:39 UTC https://padlet.com/ctate3/eefx43jb4330/wish/197991099 "I want to leave as soon as I can. I think I was born with a suitcase"(p.111). virckkie000 https://padlet.com/ctate3/eefx43jb4330/wish/198015338 KV]]> 2017-10-17 20:22:45 UTC https://padlet.com/ctate3/eefx43jb4330/wish/198015338 "I wanted to tell him that I thought I was being courageous, and that I was trying to fix my broken friendship with Rowdy, and that I missed him, and if that was gay, then okay, I was the gayest dude in the world"(pg.103). virckkie000 https://padlet.com/ctate3/eefx43jb4330/wish/198016129 KV]]> 2017-10-17 20:25:01 UTC https://padlet.com/ctate3/eefx43jb4330/wish/198016129 "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) jannezea000 https://padlet.com/ctate3/eefx43jb4330/wish/198016170 ZJ]]> 2017-10-17 20:25:07 UTC https://padlet.com/ctate3/eefx43jb4330/wish/198016170 ¨So i draw because i want to talk to the world. And i want the world to pay attention to me¨ (6) pagejef003 https://padlet.com/ctate3/eefx43jb4330/wish/198017521 JP]]> 2017-10-17 20:29:09 UTC https://padlet.com/ctate3/eefx43jb4330/wish/198017521 "I looked and talked and dreamed and walked differently than everybody else"(pg.110). virckkie000 https://padlet.com/ctate3/eefx43jb4330/wish/198017990 KV]]> 2017-10-17 20:30:46 UTC https://padlet.com/ctate3/eefx43jb4330/wish/198017990 "Did you know that Indians are living proof that niggers fuck buffalo" (p. 64) https://padlet.com/ctate3/eefx43jb4330/wish/198018369 LR

]]> 2017-10-17 20:32:03 UTC https://padlet.com/ctate3/eefx43jb4330/wish/198018369 "Nobody in my family had ever gone near a collage." JB burnsjay000 https://padlet.com/ctate3/eefx43jb4330/wish/198018459 2017-10-17 20:32:28 UTC https://padlet.com/ctate3/eefx43jb4330/wish/198018459 jannezea000 https://padlet.com/ctate3/eefx43jb4330/wish/198018974 2017-10-17 20:34:02 UTC https://padlet.com/ctate3/eefx43jb4330/wish/198018974 "And if you were fourteen years old like me and you're still stuttering and lypsing , then you become the biggest retard in the world" (p.4) jannezea000 https://padlet.com/ctate3/eefx43jb4330/wish/198425225 ZJ]]> 2017-10-18 19:05:22 UTC https://padlet.com/ctate3/eefx43jb4330/wish/198425225 "And sure sometimes my family misses a meal, and sleep is the only thing we have for dinner" (p.9) jannezea000 https://padlet.com/ctate3/eefx43jb4330/wish/198426788 ZJ]]> 2017-10-18 19:09:09 UTC https://padlet.com/ctate3/eefx43jb4330/wish/198426788 "My parents come from poor people who came from poor people, all the way back to the very first poor people" (p.11) jannezea000 https://padlet.com/ctate3/eefx43jb4330/wish/198428276 ZJ]]> 2017-10-18 19:13:02 UTC https://padlet.com/ctate3/eefx43jb4330/wish/198428276 "I was a poor kid raising money for other poor people. It made me feel almost honorable"(pg.79). virckkie000 https://padlet.com/ctate3/eefx43jb4330/wish/198859794 KV]]> 2017-10-19 20:01:37 UTC https://padlet.com/ctate3/eefx43jb4330/wish/198859794 "A bullet only costs about two cents, and anybody can afford that"(pg.14). virckkie000 https://padlet.com/ctate3/eefx43jb4330/wish/198860346 KV]]> 2017-10-19 20:03:42 UTC https://padlet.com/ctate3/eefx43jb4330/wish/198860346 ¨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) perezmao000 https://padlet.com/ctate3/eefx43jb4330/wish/198860711 MP]]> 2017-10-19 20:05:10 UTC https://padlet.com/ctate3/eefx43jb4330/wish/198860711 "'Junior, sweetheart,' Mom said. 'I'm sorry, but we don't have any money for Oscar"(pg.10). virckkie000 https://padlet.com/ctate3/eefx43jb4330/wish/198861284 KV]]> 2017-10-19 20:07:20 UTC https://padlet.com/ctate3/eefx43jb4330/wish/198861284 batsojai000 https://padlet.com/ctate3/eefx43jb4330/wish/198861396 "He was an extremely weird dude [Gordy]. But he was the smartest person i'd ever known. 
He would always be the smartest person i'd ever known. And he certainly helped me through school. He not only tutored me and challenged me, but he made me realize that hard work - that the act of finishing, of completing, of accomplishing a task - is joyous.
 (Pg. 98)  
J Batson ]]> 2017-10-19 20:07:48 UTC https://padlet.com/ctate3/eefx43jb4330/wish/198861396 "And then you start to believe you are stupid and ugly because you are indian" (p.9) jannezea000 https://padlet.com/ctate3/eefx43jb4330/wish/198862021 ZJ]]> 2017-10-19 20:10:03 UTC https://padlet.com/ctate3/eefx43jb4330/wish/198862021 "Hey look" one of them said "Its hydro head" (p.20) jannezea000 https://padlet.com/ctate3/eefx43jb4330/wish/198862451 ZJ]]> 2017-10-19 20:11:31 UTC https://padlet.com/ctate3/eefx43jb4330/wish/198862451 ¨His father is drinking hard and throwing hard punches, so Rowdy and his mother are always walking around with bruised and bloody faces.¨ (p.16) perezmao000 https://padlet.com/ctate3/eefx43jb4330/wish/198862698 MP]]> 2017-10-19 20:12:26 UTC https://padlet.com/ctate3/eefx43jb4330/wish/198862698 ¨Everywhere. I want to walk on the Great Wall of China. I want to walk to the top of pyramids in Egypt. I want to swim in every ocean. I want to climb Mount Everest. I want to go on an African safari. I want to ride a dogsled in Antarctica. I want all of it. Every single piece of everything¨. (pg 111) delgajov000 https://padlet.com/ctate3/eefx43jb4330/wish/198862927 JD]]> 2017-10-19 20:13:10 UTC https://padlet.com/ctate3/eefx43jb4330/wish/198862927 "'I'm sick of Indian guys who treat white women like bowling trophies.'"(pg.115). virckkie000 https://padlet.com/ctate3/eefx43jb4330/wish/198863010 KV]]> 2017-10-19 20:13:27 UTC https://padlet.com/ctate3/eefx43jb4330/wish/198863010 "my mother and father are the twin suns which orbit around and my whole world would explode without them" (p.11) jannezea000 https://padlet.com/ctate3/eefx43jb4330/wish/198863617 ZJ]]> 2017-10-19 20:15:07 UTC https://padlet.com/ctate3/eefx43jb4330/wish/198863617 "My mother and father weren't home, so I turned to my grandmother for advice"(pg.68). virckkie000 https://padlet.com/ctate3/eefx43jb4330/wish/198863791 KV]]> 2017-10-19 20:15:36 UTC https://padlet.com/ctate3/eefx43jb4330/wish/198863791 "My house is a sale place, so Rowdy spends most of his time with us. It's like he is family" (p.17) jannezea000 https://padlet.com/ctate3/eefx43jb4330/wish/198864395 ZJ]]> 2017-10-19 20:17:23 UTC https://padlet.com/ctate3/eefx43jb4330/wish/198864395 "I didn't understand how wearing a Halloween costume could become a political statement, I admired her [Penelope] commitment"(pg.78). virckkie000 https://padlet.com/ctate3/eefx43jb4330/wish/198864542 KV]]> 2017-10-19 20:17:50 UTC https://padlet.com/ctate3/eefx43jb4330/wish/198864542 batsojai000 https://padlet.com/ctate3/eefx43jb4330/wish/198865136 "Hey, here's some lunch money,"  he said and handed me a dollar.
 We were poor enough to get free lunch, but I didn't want to be the only Indian and a sad sack who needed charity.
(Pg. 55)
J Batson]]> 2017-10-19 20:19:41 UTC https://padlet.com/ctate3/eefx43jb4330/wish/198865136 ¨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 delgajov000 https://padlet.com/ctate3/eefx43jb4330/wish/198865146 JD]]> 2017-10-19 20:19:43 UTC https://padlet.com/ctate3/eefx43jb4330/wish/198865146 "Line is my best human friend and he cares about me, so he would always tell me the truth" (p.16) jannezea000 https://padlet.com/ctate3/eefx43jb4330/wish/198865245 ZJ]]> 2017-10-19 20:20:07 UTC https://padlet.com/ctate3/eefx43jb4330/wish/198865245 "They didn't beat me up too bad. ... Mostly they just wanted to remind me that I was a traitor"(pg.79). virckkie000 https://padlet.com/ctate3/eefx43jb4330/wish/198865525 KV]]> 2017-10-19 20:20:40 UTC https://padlet.com/ctate3/eefx43jb4330/wish/198865525 "Rowdy has protected me since we were born" (p.17) jannezea000 https://padlet.com/ctate3/eefx43jb4330/wish/198865759 ZJ]]> 2017-10-19 20:21:24 UTC https://padlet.com/ctate3/eefx43jb4330/wish/198865759 "If shew aint the prettiest and strongest and funniest person"(p.25) jannezea000 https://padlet.com/ctate3/eefx43jb4330/wish/198866219 ZJ]]> 2017-10-19 20:23:01 UTC https://padlet.com/ctate3/eefx43jb4330/wish/198866219 "They were laughing at my name" (p.60) jannezea000 https://padlet.com/ctate3/eefx43jb4330/wish/198866777 ZJ]]> 2017-10-19 20:24:46 UTC https://padlet.com/ctate3/eefx43jb4330/wish/198866777 "Is that why you talk so funny" (p.61) jannezea000 https://padlet.com/ctate3/eefx43jb4330/wish/198866959 ZJ]]> 2017-10-19 20:25:21 UTC https://padlet.com/ctate3/eefx43jb4330/wish/198866959 "His father is drinking hard and throwing hard punches, so Rowdy and his mother are walking around with huge bruises."(p.16) jannezea000 https://padlet.com/ctate3/eefx43jb4330/wish/198867134 ZJ]]> 2017-10-19 20:26:02 UTC https://padlet.com/ctate3/eefx43jb4330/wish/198867134 "I decided to run again but one of them grabbed me and shoved me toward another brother" (p.21) jannezea000 https://padlet.com/ctate3/eefx43jb4330/wish/198867575 ZJ]]> 2017-10-19 20:27:41 UTC https://padlet.com/ctate3/eefx43jb4330/wish/198867575 "He only talks about his dreams with me and i only talk about my dreams with him" (p.23) jannezea000 https://padlet.com/ctate3/eefx43jb4330/wish/198867901 ZJ]]> 2017-10-19 20:28:56 UTC https://padlet.com/ctate3/eefx43jb4330/wish/198867901 huntesha000 https://padlet.com/ctate3/eefx43jb4330/wish/202712167 "I wish I were magical, but I am really just a poor-ass reservation kid living with his poor-ass family on the poor-ass Spokane Indian Reservation."  SH]]> 2017-11-01 20:50:29 UTC https://padlet.com/ctate3/eefx43jb4330/wish/202712167 "Last year, Rowdy and I were the best players on the eighth-grade team" (pg.28) SH huntesha000 https://padlet.com/ctate3/eefx43jb4330/wish/202715468 2017-11-01 21:04:56 UTC https://padlet.com/ctate3/eefx43jb4330/wish/202715468 "She is the prettiest and strongest and funniest person who ever spent twenty- three hours a day alone in a basement." (pg.28) SH huntesha000 https://padlet.com/ctate3/eefx43jb4330/wish/202716801 2017-11-01 21:11:00 UTC https://padlet.com/ctate3/eefx43jb4330/wish/202716801