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1a. Find the simile on page 178. Copy it exactly as it appears on the page. 1b. What do you think Wood Mountain heard from behind the kitchen door when "someone was talking to Bernie" (178)? Ic. Why do you think Thomas tells his father, "I need you to help me fight it"? How can Biboon help Thomas? Your opinion. Answer in a few sentences.

 

what do in the beginning? To keep the land?"„ow Dip you - "It was sign or die.' the last of it?” "First they gave us this scrap, then they tried to push us "How did you keep off this scrap. Then they took away most of the scrap. Now, what you are saying is they want to push us off the edge of the

 

scrap. Biboon's breathy wheez g "How did you hold on?" old man's laughter. „I was young. But I was part of it. We did hold on. By our fingernails. And toenails. And teeth." "How did you finally make them agree to it? The last of the land? What we have now?" "We got together on it. Stuck together on it. Aisens, Misko-biness, Ka-ish-pa, all of them, Wazhashk too, kept clinging on and clinging on. We had to confront those settlers when they came on our boundaries. We almost went to war on that, but we kept our heads. We knew what would happen if we killed any of those settlers. We confronted them. We stuck together on that. Then we put up a delegation." "How did you put up a delegation?" te" fWa. r B emupet ervve tiintiocnheadr for it. Don't forget, we had to go through convince  g e anddtt them anyway. We wrote a letter. wz

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AFTER THEY' were settled on the moving train, rain unwrapped the newspaper Package. A stack of Wood Moun-pancakes and bacon. Ile folded one of the pancakes around some bacon