love medicine chapter 1

why is this 42 pages

June Kashpaw

long legged Chippewa woman aged but moved like a young person. She was attractive and made a living from the company of men. She was part of native American tribe = Chippewa

Williston, North Dakota

setting. it was also snowing outside

Gordie Kashpaw

June Kashpaw’s divorced husband from the Chippewa reservation. They were originally cousins and had to run away to get married.

Andy

the man that June Kashpaw met at the bar while she was waiting for her bus, however, she decides to go to a party with him after getting a good vibe from him.

* he was a mud engineer
* peeled blue eggs
* June imagined death by hose

King

June Kashpaw’s son who gifted her vinyl jacket

June Kashpaw’s uncle

Uncle Eli

type of wind June mentions at the end of part 1

chinook wind

narrator of part 2

albertine johnson

what did albertine read from her mother’s letter?

June, her aunt, was buried and her mother didn’t want to bother her from her studies for the funeral

relationship between Albertine and June?

June is Albertine’s aunt

who was june raised by?

Uncle Eli when her father ran off to the city

what was june studying?

to be a beautician

who are the “boom trash” that albertine describe?

the ones that bat around the state in big pickup trucks that are loaded with options and an indian american girl is an easy night

albertine’s mother’s name

Zelda

why was albertine mad at her mother zelda?

for not telling her sooner about her aunt june’s death

Zelda’s husband (1st)

Swede Johnson who is white and not from the reservation. He joined the army shortly after the marraige and went awol.

Zelda’s new husband (2nd)

Bjornson who owns a solid wheat farm

who manages the main family house of Albertine?

her Aunt Aurelia

what religion does this family practice?

catholicism

name of the nun convent

Sacred Heart

King’s wife name

Lynette

King’s son name

King Junior

Grandma Kashpaw name

Marie

Grandpa Kashpaw name

Nector - memory is lost but is happy ( he even went to college)

Grandpa Kashpaw’s mother’s name

Rushes Bear

termination policy

land lost its special Indian status under this policy

story that Aurelia and Zelda are hesitant to share from Grandma

trying to hang June in the backyard

Who is king going to go pick up in his new car?

Uncle Eli (but Zelda and Aurelia don’t think he will come bc the care reminds him of June )

what was june’s cause of death?

natural causes, so the insurance money went to king and he bought his new car with that money. that’s why Uncle eli won’t go into it

what did king buy with the insurance money?

big pink gravestone and a new sports car

who is zelda referring to when she says “that white girl”

Lynette

King and Lynette relationship

Lynette seems to suffer from domestic abuse from King and her eyes are red and watery

why did Uncle Eli and Uncle Gordie not ride with King?

they didn’t want to ride in a car that was bought with June’s insurance money

relationship between Uncle Eli and Grandpa Nector

brothers

when gordie came to the house what condition was he in?

drunk

what do zelda, Aurelia, and grandma marie want to see before it gets too dark?

June’s gravestone (pink that King had purchased)

Albertine is allowed to let Eli and Grandpa Nector eat anything except for ____

the pies which are saved for the next day

the last man at the reservation to snare himself a deer

Uncle Eli

Lipsha Morrissey

had been taken in by Grandma Marie and lived with the Kashpaws

* shy
* girl eyes
* beat up by King when younger

what is the reason Lipsha and King never got along? in other words, the secret which only Albertine knew

they were half brothers : Lipsha was a son of June from one of the years she had left Gordie

what was written in blue-and-white patch on King’s hat?

“World’s Greatest Fisherman”

what was King’s first catch?

skunk

how does gordie say to ask for a cigarette?

ciga swa

what does King do when Uncle Eli tells him that he had once caught a 14 inch trout?

King gives his cap of “World’s Greatest Fisherman” to Uncle Eli

where is Lynette from?

she is full blooded Norwegian but doesn’t know her family

while gordie telling a joke, what does Albertine hear?

King and Lynette cursing and yelling to give the keys as Lynette was locked in the car

the firebird

name for King’s sports car

who does lipsha consider as his mother?

grandma kashpaw

why does lipsha hate his mother?

lipsha knows that his mother June wanted to drown him as a child

what do Albertine and Lipsha hear suddenly when they wake?

clanging of metal and pots tumbling in the house

* gordie was gone
* eli was gone

what did albertine and lipsha find when they run up the hill?

King was trying to drown Lynette in the sink

What did Albertine do to stop King from drowning Lynette?

She jumped on his back and bit his ear

what is albertine trying to replace at the end of the chapter?

the pies that king had destroyed

Why were there blue and pink eggs in the bar?

It was Easter

What was Albertine studying?

Nursing

name of the native american tribe

Chippewa