Keeper is an old Anishinaabe man who lives alone in a cabin in the White Dog Reserve in Ontario without electricity. He believes people have strayed from their traditions and elders. The document discusses how the Anishinaabe people call themselves, how they measure time based on seasons rather than days, and how movies have presented stereotypes of Native Americans. Keeper holds the reader's attention through his storytelling style of speaking directly to the reader with humor, as if telling a warm story in person.

1. Keeper n’ Me Reading Response Questions #l (pages l to 4)
“Bih’kee-yan, Bih’kee-yan, Bih’kee-yan”
1. What do you learn about the character of Keeper in the first four pages?(characterization)
He’s an old Anaiascube man who believes that people, all people have gotten away from what
they are supposed to be like, IE their tradtions, many people not just Indians need to learn from
their elders more often. He has a sense of humour and looks are on the bright side of life.
2. Where does Keeper live? Tell me something about this place.(setting)
Lives on the White dog Reserve in Ontario. Lots of trees, bush, it’s the wilderness. He lives in a
cabin without electricity like many of the people on the reserve
3. What do Keeper and his people call themselves? Twice Keeper mentions one form of the
media (radio, television, newspaper, internet) that presents “stereotypes” of Aboriginal
peoples. Find at least one reference and the type of media. (theme)
They call them selves Anashabie. Many Movies had Mexicans playing Indians from the old west and
saying things like “Many moons from now” “Many winters” etc.
4. How do the Ojibway measure time? And how does this differ from the way time is generally
measured now? (conflict between Ojibway values and values of dominant social group)
Ojibway measure time by the seasons (yearly) not by the day (time management, alarm clocks)
They know what needs to be done by the time of the year it is.
5. Keeper says: “Any damn fool can get people’s attention but it takes a storyteller to get their
attention and hold it.” How does Keeper hold your attention? (narrative structure).
By writing as he would talk to you. He does not use a lot of high and mighty language, the words are
written as if he was right in front of you telling you his story. He also uses humour a lot, cracking jokes
even if they are only funny to him. You get the sense of a warm old man who just wants to tell you what
it’s like and what it was like and if you get the how it should be then all the more better.