3rd Hour PTI Quotes by Emily Nault https://padlet.com/emily_nault/q794hr5n5b5r en-us 2016-09-19 15:50:14 UTC 2022-11-07 00:08:46 UTC hello@padlet.com Holy emily_nault https://padlet.com/emily_nault/q794hr5n5b5r/wish/125122272 “I was born with water on the brain” (Alexie 1).]]> 2016-09-20 15:25:01 UTC https://padlet.com/emily_nault/q794hr5n5b5r/wish/125122272 Sterotype/potery https://padlet.com/emily_nault/q794hr5n5b5r/wish/125122562
  • “At school today, I went dressed as a homeless dude. It was a pretty easy costume for me” (Alexie 77).

    • ]]>     2016-09-20 15:25:34 UTC https://padlet.com/emily_nault/q794hr5n5b5r/wish/125122562     Poverty, Stereotypes https://padlet.com/emily_nault/q794hr5n5b5r/wish/125122872 “And sure, sometimes, my family misses a meal, and sleep is the only thing we have for dinner,...” (Alexie 8).]]> 2016-09-20 15:26:11 UTC https://padlet.com/emily_nault/q794hr5n5b5r/wish/125122872 Hopelessness https://padlet.com/emily_nault/q794hr5n5b5r/wish/125123002
  • “ it sucks to be poor, and it sucks to feel that you somehow who deserves to be poor”(Alexie 13).



    • ]]>     2016-09-20 15:26:27 UTC https://padlet.com/emily_nault/q794hr5n5b5r/wish/125123002     Racism  https://padlet.com/emily_nault/q794hr5n5b5r/wish/125123034 “Hey chief” (Alexie 64).]]> 2016-09-20 15:26:30 UTC https://padlet.com/emily_nault/q794hr5n5b5r/wish/125123034 Racism  https://padlet.com/emily_nault/q794hr5n5b5r/wish/125123050
  • “Did you know that Indians are living proof that Tingys f*** buffalo?” (Alexie 64)

    • ]]>     2016-09-20 15:26:33 UTC https://padlet.com/emily_nault/q794hr5n5b5r/wish/125123050     Sterotype  https://padlet.com/emily_nault/q794hr5n5b5r/wish/125123063 “But I knew I’d have to put a stop to it eventually or I’d always be known as ‘’Chief’’ or ‘’Tonto’’ or ‘’Squaw Boy’.” (Alexie 64)]]> 2016-09-20 15:26:34 UTC https://padlet.com/emily_nault/q794hr5n5b5r/wish/125123063  Poetry   https://padlet.com/emily_nault/q794hr5n5b5r/wish/125123077 “But i am really just a poor-a** reservation kid living with his poor-a** family on the poor-a** Spokane Indian Reservation” (Alexie 7). ]]> 2016-09-20 15:26:36 UTC https://padlet.com/emily_nault/q794hr5n5b5r/wish/125123077 Culture https://padlet.com/emily_nault/q794hr5n5b5r/wish/125123145 “We were supposed to make you give up being 
    Indian. Your songs and stories and language and dancing. Everything. We weren’t trying to kill Indian people. We were trying to kill Indian culture” (Alexie 35). ]]>     2016-09-20 15:26:46 UTC https://padlet.com/emily_nault/q794hr5n5b5r/wish/125123145     Poverty, Stereotypes  https://padlet.com/emily_nault/q794hr5n5b5r/wish/125123190 “...and sure, sometimes, my family misses a meal, and sleep is the only thing we have for dinner…” (Alexie 8).]]> 2016-09-20 15:26:53 UTC https://padlet.com/emily_nault/q794hr5n5b5r/wish/125123190 Bullying https://padlet.com/emily_nault/q794hr5n5b5r/wish/125123195
  •  ‘other kids, they beat me up when i cry. Sometimes they make me cry so they can beat me up for crying.” “ (Alexie 41)



    • ]]>     2016-09-20 15:26:54 UTC https://padlet.com/emily_nault/q794hr5n5b5r/wish/125123195     https://padlet.com/emily_nault/q794hr5n5b5r/wish/125123231
  • “They stared at me, the Indian boy with the black eye and swollen nose, my going-away gifts from Rowdy. Those white kids couldn’t believe their eyes. They stared like I was Bigfoot or a UFO.” (Alexie 56)

    • ]]>     2016-09-20 15:26:58 UTC https://padlet.com/emily_nault/q794hr5n5b5r/wish/125123231     Poverty https://padlet.com/emily_nault/q794hr5n5b5r/wish/125123398 “We were poor enough to get free lunch” (Alexie 55).]]> 2016-09-20 15:27:20 UTC https://padlet.com/emily_nault/q794hr5n5b5r/wish/125123398 “Roger and his friends were laughing like crazy. I hated them. And I knew I had to something big. I couldn’t let them get away with that s***. I wasn’t just defending. I was defending indians, black people, and buffalo. So I punched roger in the face. (Alexie 65 ). https://padlet.com/emily_nault/q794hr5n5b5r/wish/125123479 2016-09-20 15:27:29 UTC https://padlet.com/emily_nault/q794hr5n5b5r/wish/125123479 Hope https://padlet.com/emily_nault/q794hr5n5b5r/wish/125123497 “‘But not you,’ Mr.P said. ‘You can’t give up. You won’t give up. You threw that book in my face because somewhere inside you refuse to give up’” (Alexie 43)]]> 2016-09-20 15:27:30 UTC https://padlet.com/emily_nault/q794hr5n5b5r/wish/125123497 Racism https://padlet.com/emily_nault/q794hr5n5b5r/wish/125123528
  • “ She laughed and told her girlfriend at the next desk that my name was junior. They both laughed. “ (Alexie 60)




    • ]]>     2016-09-20 15:27:34 UTC https://padlet.com/emily_nault/q794hr5n5b5r/wish/125123528     Culture https://padlet.com/emily_nault/q794hr5n5b5r/wish/125123574
  • “My school and my tribe are so poor and sad that we have to study from the same dang books our parents studied from. That is absolutely the saddest thing in the world”(Alexie.31).

    • ]]>     2016-09-20 15:27:39 UTC https://padlet.com/emily_nault/q794hr5n5b5r/wish/125123574     Friendship https://padlet.com/emily_nault/q794hr5n5b5r/wish/125123696 “I think Rowdy might be the most important person in my life. Maybe more important than my family” (Alexie 24).]]> 2016-09-20 15:27:50 UTC https://padlet.com/emily_nault/q794hr5n5b5r/wish/125123696 https://padlet.com/emily_nault/q794hr5n5b5r/wish/125123817 ‘“Son,” Mr.P said. “You’re going to find more and more hope the further and further you walk away from this sad, sad, sad reservation”’ (Alexie. 43).]]> 2016-09-20 15:28:04 UTC https://padlet.com/emily_nault/q794hr5n5b5r/wish/125123817 https://padlet.com/emily_nault/q794hr5n5b5r/wish/125123821 “Do you know why you hit me with that book? Mr. P finally asked. It was a trick question. I knew I needed to answer correctly or he’d be mad. I hit you because I’m stupid” (Alexie 34). ]]> 2016-09-20 15:28:04 UTC https://padlet.com/emily_nault/q794hr5n5b5r/wish/125123821 stereotype https://padlet.com/emily_nault/q794hr5n5b5r/wish/125123861 “Eugene had braids down to his butt” (Alexie 70).]]> 2016-09-20 15:28:11 UTC https://padlet.com/emily_nault/q794hr5n5b5r/wish/125123861 Stereotype https://padlet.com/emily_nault/q794hr5n5b5r/wish/125123977
  • “You start believing that you’re poor because you’re stupid and ugly. Then you start believing that you’re stupid and ugly because you’re Indian” (Alexie 13).

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  • '‘I’m sorry, but we don’t have any money for oscar’” (Alexie 10).

    • ]]>     2016-09-20 15:28:33 UTC https://padlet.com/emily_nault/q794hr5n5b5r/wish/125124026     Racism https://padlet.com/emily_nault/q794hr5n5b5r/wish/125124073
  • “Hey, Chief,” Roger said. “You want to hear a joke?” “Sure,” I said “Did you know that Indians are living proof that n******  f*** buffalo?” (Alexie 64).



    • ]]>     2016-09-20 15:28:38 UTC https://padlet.com/emily_nault/q794hr5n5b5r/wish/125124073     “Don't touch me, you retarded fag! He yelled” “my heart broke into 14 pieces, one for each year me and Rowdy and I had been friends (Alexie 53). https://padlet.com/emily_nault/q794hr5n5b5r/wish/125124085 Friendship]]> 2016-09-20 15:28:39 UTC https://padlet.com/emily_nault/q794hr5n5b5r/wish/125124085 “Poverty doesn’t give you strength or teach you lessons about perseverance. No, poverty only teaches you how to be poor” - Page 13 https://padlet.com/emily_nault/q794hr5n5b5r/wish/125124086 2016-09-20 15:28:39 UTC https://padlet.com/emily_nault/q794hr5n5b5r/wish/125124086 Bullying https://padlet.com/emily_nault/q794hr5n5b5r/wish/125124158 “ Then i’ll pick on them” (Alexie 18)]]> 2016-09-20 15:28:48 UTC https://padlet.com/emily_nault/q794hr5n5b5r/wish/125124158 Friendship https://padlet.com/emily_nault/q794hr5n5b5r/wish/125124168 “‘Have I ever told anybody your secrets?’ Rowdy asked. ‘No.’ ‘Okay, then, I won’t tell anybody you cried over a dumb girl.’ And he didn’t tell anybody. Rowdy was my secret-keeper” (Alexie 76).]]> 2016-09-20 15:28:49 UTC https://padlet.com/emily_nault/q794hr5n5b5r/wish/125124168 https://padlet.com/emily_nault/q794hr5n5b5r/wish/125124351
  • “Come on” I said. “Who has the most hope?” 
    •              “White people,” my parents said at the same time”                 (Alexie 45)


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  • “‘”Who has the most hope” I asked. Mom and Dad looked at each other. They studied each other’s eyes, you know, like they had antennas and were sending radio signals to each other. And then they both looked back at me. “Come on,” I said. “Who has the most hope?” “White people,” my parents said at the same time.”(Alexie 45).

    • ]]>     2016-09-20 15:29:21 UTC https://padlet.com/emily_nault/q794hr5n5b5r/wish/125124409     “Poverty = empty refrigerator + empty stomach” - Page 8 https://padlet.com/emily_nault/q794hr5n5b5r/wish/125124427 2016-09-20 15:29:22 UTC https://padlet.com/emily_nault/q794hr5n5b5r/wish/125124427 Culture https://padlet.com/emily_nault/q794hr5n5b5r/wish/125124600
  • “You want to head down to the powwow?” Rowdy asked. “Nah,” I said. The Spokane Tribe holds their annual pow wow celebration over the Labor Day weekend. This was the 127th annual one and there would be singing, war dancing, gambling, storytelling, laughter, fry bread, hamburgers, hotdogs, arts and crafts, and plenty of alcoholic brawling. I wanted no part of it.” (Alexie 17).

    • ]]>     2016-09-20 15:29:44 UTC https://padlet.com/emily_nault/q794hr5n5b5r/wish/125124600     https://padlet.com/emily_nault/q794hr5n5b5r/wish/125124768
  • “I felt brave all of a sudden. Yeah, maybe it was just a stupid and immature school yard fight. Or maybe it was the most important moment of my life. Maybe I was telling the world that I was no longer a human target.” (Alexie 65)

    • ]]>     2016-09-20 15:30:08 UTC https://padlet.com/emily_nault/q794hr5n5b5r/wish/125124768     Bullying https://padlet.com/emily_nault/q794hr5n5b5r/wish/125124783
  • “The bullies would pick me up, spin me in circles, put their finger down on my skull, and say, ‘I want to go there’” (Alexie 3).

    • ]]>     2016-09-20 15:30:09 UTC https://padlet.com/emily_nault/q794hr5n5b5r/wish/125124783     Bullying https://padlet.com/emily_nault/q794hr5n5b5r/wish/125124832 “Everybody on the rez calls me a retard about twice a day” (Alexie 4)]]> 2016-09-20 15:30:14 UTC https://padlet.com/emily_nault/q794hr5n5b5r/wish/125124832 Hopelessness https://padlet.com/emily_nault/q794hr5n5b5r/wish/125125204
  • “I was the only kid, white or Indian, who knew that Charles Dickens wrote A Tale of Two Cities. And let me tell you, We Indians were the worst of times and those Reardan kids were the best of times. Those kids were magnificent, They knew everything. And they were beautiful. They were beautiful and smart. They were beautiful and smart and epic. They were filled with hope.” (Alexie 50).

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  • “‘I hurt a lot of indian kids when I was a young teacher.’ he said. ‘I might’ve broken a few bones.’ All of a sudden, I realized he was confessing to me.” (Alexie 35-36)

    • ]]>     2016-09-20 15:31:13 UTC https://padlet.com/emily_nault/q794hr5n5b5r/wish/125125239     Racism https://padlet.com/emily_nault/q794hr5n5b5r/wish/125125662
  • “‘I hurt a lot of Indian kids when I was a young teacher.’ he said. ‘I might’ve broken a few bones.’ All of a sudden, I realized he was confessing to me.” (Alexie 35-36)

    • ]]>     2016-09-20 15:32:09 UTC https://padlet.com/emily_nault/q794hr5n5b5r/wish/125125662