Ap Lang “There, There” study guide

What image was being broadcasted on American TV in the late 1970s? What was it called?

A drawing of an Indian head, called the Indian head test vision

What was happening by the time Massasoit’s son Metacomet became chief?

There were no Indian pilgrim meals being eaten together

What did the Massachusetts governor do after colonists massacred the Green Corn Dance in 1637

Declared a feast called Thanksgiving

What was the first novel by a Native Person called and what is it about?

The life and adventures of Joaquin Murieta, about a real life mexican bandit

How is what happened to Murieta similar to what happened to Metacomet

Both had their heads cut off and body parts were sold

If “the Indian head in the jar, the Indian head on a spike were like flags flown, to be seen, cast broadly” What are they meant to show

Fear, Racism, were turned into images rather than being respected

What does the husband do in the old Cheyenne story? What did the head do

The husband killed his wife and fed her meat to the kids, the head rolled and became confused and drunk, also drank up the water

What is the point of the allusion to Mel Gibson

Meant to resemble the real Indian wold in the 1500’s in mexico

Who is the “we” that the narrator refers to in the second full paragraph on page 7

The Indians

What is now out of circulation?

The Indians being put on coins and currency

According to the narrator, what was “the final, necessary step to assimilation, absorption, erasure, completion of a 500 year-old genocidal campaign?

Getting to cities

What were the multiple ways the indigenous found themselves, and organized, in the cities?

Lived in box car villages, made art and babies, made a way for people to walk

Which wars did the indigenous help the U.S. fight?

WW2 and the Vietnam War

What is the definition of urban Indians? What’s important about the identity?

They belong to the city, what is important is how their ancestors lived

Where are stray bullets and consequences landing?

On their unsuspecting bodies

Where is the land?

Everywhere and Nowhere

What is the narrator implying that he did by sharing what he could taste after Mario asks him a question in the sand park?

That he engaged in a physical fight and or had been violently injured

What does the narrator call his syndrome? Why?

The “drome”, he calls it that because he is ashamed of it

Why doesnt the 21 year old narrator drink?

Because he was already drunk in the womb from his moms drinking problem

What is the “it” that the narrator refers to when he says, “I didn’t really know it until she said it like that”

His intelligence

From whom does the narrator get respect?

Maxine

How does the narrator feel about the colonization of the Cheyenne people?

He feels sadness and anger from the treatment of his people based on their history and culture, it was a brutal genocide and the narrator wants to step up

Why is MF Doom the narrator’s favorite rapper?

Because he understood the meanings of his songs and wears a mask to cover himself

why does Tony give most of his illicit drug money to his relative Maxim? How are they related?

Because she let him live at her house, Maxine is his grandma

Characterize Maxine and Tony’s relationship

Pure and genuine, she is the only person who cares for him

explain how Tony gets involved in selling drug

These white boys (dealers) came up on him and asked if he had coke on him at a liquor store, and he needed the money to support his grandma Maxine

From whom what Octavio give away his “heart’s blood”

His grandma

What does Octavio want Tony to tell him about? Why?

What a pow wow is, Octavio wants to know because he wants to rob it

What does Tony Tron in the living room? Who does he see

He tries on his regalia and he sees himself as an Indian and a dancer

From what point of view is this chapter written?

First person

From what pov is this chapter written (Dene Oxedene chapter)?

Third person limited

What has Dene want that ultimately doesn’t work?

A cigarette, and or drugs that work

Characterize the first time Dene saw someone tag

He was on the bus and he silently in a quietly observed the kid

What is a tone of the writing when Dene is experiencing suicidal thoughts?

Somber, cinematic and insecurity

What is Dene’s tag? Why is it that word?

His tag is lens, it is that word because someone took a photo if him and when it flashed he saw the word lens

What is Dene’s uncles name? What is his dream job? What is his actual job

His name is Lucas, his dream job is a movie director to create his own movie, his actual job is helping the people make the movie(camera crew).

What does the broken plate symbolize?

Loss of identity and pain of native culture

What does Dene want to tell Rob, but it doesn’t? Why?

What truly happened to native people because Rob’s comments about Oakland are arrogant because he doesn’t understand the Native American experience

Explain Dene’s documentary vision. Whose original idea is this?

To document Indian stories in Oakland and bring a new vision of native experience unlike seen on TV, this was his uncles original idea.

Who told Dene about the underground waterway that went all around the bay?

His mother

What did Dene want to believe when he turned on the camera?

That his uncle was with him seeing through it.