Maping There There by Colin Bean

Alcatraz

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Jacquie/Opal: "Me and my sister, Jacquie, were doing our homework in the living room with the TV on when our mom came home with news that we would be moving to Alcatraz." (Orange, 45)

Oakland, CA

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Oakland Indian Center

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Thomas Frank: "You joined a year after you first started working at the Indian center as a janitor. You're supposed to say custodian now, or maintenance person." (Orange, 211)

Edwin/Blue: "Edwin's her intern, her assistance for the powwow event coordination for this past year." (Orange, 237)

Tony Loneman: "She's my counselor over at the Indian Center–I was at first mandated to go after the incident with Mario in kindergarten." (Orange, 17)

Oakland Collesium

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Bill Davis: "He likes to have something to do, to feel useful, even if that work, that job, is currently in maintenance. He is picking up garbage missed by the initial postgame crew. It’s a job for the old guy they can’t fire because he’s been there so long. He knows." (Orange, 81)

The Powwow

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Bill Davis

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Edwin Black: "Bill’s not an asshole. If anything he goes out of his way to be nice, to make conversation with me. It’s the forced nature of it. That I have to decide whether to treat him well or not. This stranger. My mom and Bill met at a bar in downtown Oakland" (Orange, 71)

Octavio Gomez

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Charlos

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Blue

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Oakland: "I got a job in Oakland at the Indian Center and that helped me to feel more like I belonged somewhere. Then one day I was looking on Craigslist and saw that my tribe in Oklahoma was hiring a youth-services coordinator. That’s what I was doing in Oakland, so I applied not really thinking I would get it. But I got it and moved out to Oklahoma a few months later" (Orange, 172)

Edwin Black

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Blue: "'Blue, meet my dad, Harvey, and this is his, his friend Jacquie, what was it?' 'Red Feather,' Jacquie says. 'Right, and this is Blue,' Edwin says. Blue’s face goes white. She reaches out her hand and goes for a smile, but it looks more like she’s trying not to throw up" (Orange, 221)

Daniel Gonzales

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Tony Loneman

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Edwin Black: "My friend Karen told me they got all kinds of intelligence. She's my counselor..." (Orange, 17)

Charlos: "Carlos is hella flaky. The night he was supposed to get it, he called me and told me he couldn’t make it, and that I’d have to go to Octavio’s to get it myself." (Orange, 35)

Octavio: "I remember my grandma Maxine shaking my shoulders in the hall outside the principal’s office, my eyes closed, her making this psshh sound she always makes when I try to explain myself and shouldn’t." (Orange, 30)

Black Hills

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Tony Loneman: "The bullets will come from the Black Hills Ammunition plant in Black Hills, South Dakota." (Orange, 142)

Orvil: "Ever since they were in her care, Opal had been openly against any of them doing anything Indian. She treated it all like it was something they could decide for themselves when they were old enough. Like drinking or driving or smoking or voting. Indianing." (Orange, 118)

Thomas Frank

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Powwow: "You’re headed to a powwow. You were invited to drum at the Big Oakland Powwow even though you’d quit drum classes." (Orange, 184)

Dene Oxendene

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Opal Viola Victoria Bear Sheild

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Orvil Red Feather: "Opal took care of Jacquie’s three grandsons—whom she’d never even met." (Orange, 96)

Dene Oxendene: But she’d met an Indian boy her age, and he made sense to Opal, he wasn’t weird or dark, or he was, but in the same ways Opal was. Plus he never talked about where he came from or what happened to him. They shared that omission like soldiers back from war, all the way up until an afternoon Opal and Lucas were hanging out at the Indian Center, waiting for people to show up for a community meal.

Calvin Johnson

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Octavio: "I’d gotten robbed in the parking lot before I could even go in. I shouldn’t have brought the shit with me. The pound I had then. But then I wasn’t sure if I did bring it. Or did Charles put it in my glove box?" (Orange, 88)

Orvil Red Feather

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Powwow: "He puts his regalia on slow, carefully, and puts his earphones in, but before he can put a song on he sees a guy across from him gesturing for him to take them out." (Orange, 198)

Jacquie Red Feather

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Blue: "'Blue, meet my dad, Harvey, and this is his, his friend Jacquie, what was it?'' Red Feather,”'Jacquie says...'I think that woman was my mom,' " (Orange, 221)

Orvil Red Feather: "Over the past few months, after years of silence, they’d been texting. Opal took care of Jacquie’s three grandsons—whom she’d never even met." (Orange, 96)

Harvey

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Edwin Black: "Hey there, Karen, I do remember that wild night, I read with horror, hoping there will be zero details about what made the night wild. I’m coming out to Oakland in a couple months, for the Big Oakland Powwow. I’m the powwow emcee, the message reads" (Orange, 74)