it is about a girl that didnt want to be eleven years old
Time to read you book. As you read notice the things that make the character act and how she feels. These are the character traits.
Mary White Bird wrote Ta-Na-E-Ka.Want to know something cool?Mary White Bird is not a real person.It is a pen name.She is actuaully a he.
It is the name of a fake Kaw native American ceremony invented by someone pretending to be a native American, calling herself Mary Whitebird, in a very poorly written book. Everything about it is false and pure imagination. It has nothing at all to do with the real Kaw tribe or Kaw religion and is nothing but nonsense - such stories should by law have to carry a prominent warning that they are fiction and do not reflect genuine native traditions.
The Kaw people do not now, nor did they ever, perform a ceremony called the Ta-na-e-ka. It is a complete fabrication. Even the name, Mary Whitebird is a fabrication. It is not a Kaw name. No Kaw person, past or present, had this name. We at the Kaw Nation are in the process of contacting the publishers of anthologies that include this piece of fiction to either omit it from future printings of their school books or at least preface the story by notifying teachers and readers that there is not a grain of truth in the story. I am the director of the Kaw Language Department at the Kaw Nation in Kaw City, Oklahoma and a Ph.D. anthropologist, so I am well qualified to make these claims. Occasionally, a responsible school teacher will locate us through our website and ask us for more information about this "ceremony," giving us an opportunity to tell them the truth. Sadly, most teachers and students take it as fact simply because it is printed in a book. I suggest that teachers use this as an opportunity to teach students to read critically and not to accept everything they read as truth, even if it is in a volume by an otherwise responsible publisher. If you want to know more about the Kaw (also called the Kansa) Indians, for whom the state of Kansas is named, please visit our website.
It didn't. It is the name of a fake Kaw (Kansa) native American ceremony invented by someone pretending to be a native American, calling herself Mary Whitebird, in a very poorly written book. Everything about it is false and pure imagination. It has nothing at all to do with the real Kaw tribe or Kaw religion and is nothing but nonsense - such stories should by law have to carry a prominent warning that they are fiction and do not reflect genuine native traditions.
In the story "Ta-Na-E-ka," the literary device of flashback is used as the protagonist recalls her childhood experience at summer camp and the significance of the Ta-Na-E-ka ceremony. This technique helps to provide context and depth to the narrative by intertwining the past with the present.
The point of view in the story "Ta-Na-E-Ka" is first person, as it is told from the perspective of the protagonist, Mary Bad Bird. This allows readers to experience the events and emotions of the story through Mary's eyes and thoughts.
it is in India
Time to read you book. As you read notice the things that make the character act and how she feels. These are the character traits.
Mary the girl in Ta-na-e-ka went to a burger goint and ate milkshakes and burgers. She slept and was very well feed when she can back.
Yes.
The answer is Independence. Mary, the young Kaw girl, has to go off on her own into the woods with nothing but a bathing suit and (secretly) $5. It is a ritual of independence and courage. Hope this helped, even a little!! :)
Low-grade fiction.
11 (if you mean the flashback)
Ta-na-e-ka is a short story written by Mary Whitebird. The story centers around a ceremony often performed by the Kaw Indians, who lived in Nebraska before being largely wiped out by disease. Whitebird observed this ceremony on a visit to the Omaha and Winnebago reservations in Nebraska, and gained more information from talking to her father-in-law, and wrote a story about the ceremony.
roger is a boy that he dont want to bea a warior
ta-na-e-ka is the flowering of adulthood when a boy could prove himself to be a worrior and a girl took the first steps to womanhood