Assignment 11Here are some of the characteristics of the Native-American genre:

The use of "black humour"
The trickster
Treaties
The quest for cultural identity

Choose two of these characteristics, explain them and find examples in the book. Give quotes and page numbers.
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The use of  ''black humour''
The Indians used black humour to make light of a matter that is generally considered taboo. For example:

Rowdy's father is drinking hard and throwing punches. That's why he and his mother Always are walking around with bloody and bruised faces. So Rowdy said it was war paint.
“It’s war paint,” Rowdy always says. “It just makes me look tougher.'' - Chapter 3.

He tries to loosen it up by saying that it is war paint, while it actually is a big problem that his alcoholic father beats him.

Treaties
After the treaties, the Indians had to live in reservations. This is an item that comes back in lots of books in the Native-American genre.
Every time Arnold went to school, he had to travel around 22 miles to get there and crossed the border of the reservation.

The next morning, Dad drove me the twenty-two miles to Reardan. ~ chapter 6

image from chapter 5, the two ways, hope outside of the reservation and his home in the reservations

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Carlijn and Esther