The Indian Motocycle Manufacturing Company was a motorcycle

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The Indian Motocycle Manufacturing Company was a
motorcycle manufacturer in Springfield,
Massachusetts. Indian was America's oldest
motorcycle brand and was once the largest
manufacturer of motorcycles in the world. The
most popular models were the Scout, made prior
to WWII, and the Chief, which had its heyday from
1922-53.
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Panhead Jons metal arts and crafts
The Indian motorcycles were a piece of art with
their girder front end so I Painted it on a cow
bone after the black back ground was put on
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hand painted 1953 Indian chief motorcycle on
drift wood
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Nanabush

• When Virgil and Wayne catch John talking to the
  raccoons, Wayne comes to the conclusion that John
  must be Nanabush. He says
• Tricksters have the ability to change their
  shape Virgil. Or didnt you listen to your
  grandmothers stories? Its all right there. He
  can talk to animals. You saw him. Hes riding a
  motorcycle, one thats named after us.
  Tricksters love irony! (201)

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Crow/Raven

• Highly enthusiastic, a charmer.
• Everyone recognizes the Crow's easy energy, and
  everyone turns to the Crow for his/her ideas and
  opinions.
• The Crow is both idealistic and diplomatic and is
  quite ingenious.
• In nurturing environments the Crow can be
  easy-going, romantic, and soft-spoken.
• Left to his/her own devices, the Crow can be
  demanding, inconsistent, vindictive, and
  abrasive.
• Page 170 Johns helmet is described as having
  a raven on it!

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The Beaver

• Take charge, adapt, overcome this is the
  Beaver.
• Beaver gets the job at hand done with efficiency.
  
• Strategic, and cunning the Beaver is a force to
  be reckoned with in matters of business and
  combat.
• In a nurturing environment the Beaver can be
  compassionate, generous, helpful, and loyal.
• Left to his/her own devices the Beaver can be
  nervous, cowardly, possessive, arrogant, and
  over-demanding.
• Hard working. Industrious. Beautiful. Loving
  to its children. Nice tail. When I thought of
  you, I instantly thought of a beaver (171).

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Virgil and Wayne

• To borrow another cultures metaphor, Nanabushs
  possible existance did open a veritable Pandoras
  Box of possibilities. His mind became flooded
  with a host of other exotic Anishnawbe tales told
  to him by his mother and grandparents, all
  peopled by a bizarre assortment of less than
  charitable characters, such as the Wendigo and
  the Elbow Sisters to name just two (238).

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Wendigo

• The Wendigo is a mythical creature appearing in
  the mythology of the Algonquin people.
• It is a malevolent cannibalistic spirit into
  which humans could transform, or which could
  possess humans.
• Those who indulged in cannibalism were at
  particular risk, and the legend appears to have
  reinforced this practice as a taboo.

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• Wendigos were embodiments of gluttony, greed, and
  excess never satisfied after killing and
  consuming one person, they were constantly
  searching for new victims.

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Who is Caliban?

• Caliban is an antagonist from Shakespeares The
  Tempest.
• Caliban is forced into servitude on an island
  ruled by Prospero.
• In some traditions he is depicted as a wild man,
  or a deformed man, or a beast man, or sometimes a
  mix of fish and man, stemming from the confusion
  of two of the characters about what he is.
• Caliban is the son of Sycorax (a devil according
  to Prospero).
• The name is an anagram of the Spanish word
  canibal the source of cannibal in English

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MONSTER IN MY POCKET TRADING CARD
In Native American folklore, Elbow Witches are
old women with awls in their elbows. They appear
in the Ojibwa story of Aayaase (also known as
"Aayaash" or "Iyash"), "Filcher-of-Meat".
Blinded by cooking smoke, the sisters killed
each other in their attempts to kill him for
their meal.
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Totem poles

• Totem poles are sculptures carved from large
  trees, by cultures of the indigenous peoples of
  the Pacific Northwest Coast of North America.
• The meanings of the designs on totem poles are as
  varied as the cultures that make them.
• Totem poles may recount familiar legends, clan
  lineages, or notable events.
• Some poles celebrate cultural beliefs, but others
  are mostly artistic presentations.

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• Maggie discovers Johns talents in art as
  described in the following quote
• The closer Maggie got, the more obvious it
  became. Somebody had carved a totem pole out
  of the telephone pole. It appeared to be an
  authentic West Coast totem pole, possibly of
  the Haida variety, facing the Aandeg house.
  (160)

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Inukshuk

• It was indeed an inukshuk of sorts, but made
  from cases of beer. Piled one atop the other, it
  towered over Maggie, standing at least four
  metres high. Cases of Labatt 50 stacked in the
  rudimentary shape of a human body, very
  reminiscent of the well-known Inuit stone figure
  (162).

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Prosecco braised grapefruit segments with basmati
rice custard and raspberry marshmallow ice
cream. I believe the grapefruit segments were
substituted with rhubarb pieces, which I think
would work better both in flavour and texture.
The presentation screams inukshuk to me.
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name of design inukshukdesign by scot
laughton from china
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designer's own wordsWhat is it? These stacking
shelves evoke a Chinese character, a balancing
figure, a samurai, an Inukshuk? It is probably
one of the simplest, most elementary ways of
assembly, to set one part atop another. Ive
always been fascinated by Inukshuks. As one
travels across the Canadian Artic, one will see
piles of rocks and slabs of stones built up to
resemble the shape of a person with arms
stretching out. These primitive looking
structures are put up by the Inuit people and
serve as markers or signposts to help guide the
Inuit through the treeless tundra of the region.
In the Inuit language, Inukshuk means in the
image of man. The stones are secured
through balance. Each one supports the one above
it and is supported by the one below it.
Together, the stones achieve strength through
unity. We learn to stack things as soon as we
learn to sit up. There is a formality to the
stacking the combinations are as vast as the
rocks one finds to create the Inukshuk... but it
always in the end becomes a familiar presence.
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John and Wayne

• If John is Nanabush, why has he come back? What
  does he hope to accomplish?
• What connections can you draw between John and
  Wayne?

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Wayne

• Wayne on his training
• I do it to honour our culture. Some people
  think everything we are is rooted in the past.
  It is, partially. But like evolution tells us,
  if things dont develop, change, evolve, adapt,
  they die. I believe that. So I and what I do are
  part of that evolution. My heart and spirit are
  with our grandfathers and grandmothers, but my
  hands and feet are in the now. (243)

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Sweetgrass and Holy Water

• When Maggie is drunk with John down by Beer Bay
  she says the following about her mother
• My mother would love that. Sweetgrass and holy
  water. That was my mother. You know, she was as
  devout as any old Italian lady. She told me I
  shouldnt be chief. She thinks there should be
  more magic in the world. She (181)
• How is this a novel about compromise? About
  finding balance? What happens when the world is
  out of balance?

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