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Part I (Pages 1 - 67)

• The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Jones, Stephen Graham. The Only Good Indians. Saga Press, New York, 2020.

• This book alternates between the present and past tenses; it also alternates between the second and third person points of view.

• In the section titled Williston, North Dakota, Ricky Boss Ribs, a young Indian Blackfeet man, was killed outside a bar in a fight.

• Ricky had left the reservation for another area of the state after his younger brother Cheeto died from a drug overdose.

• Ricky took his family's guns and looked for work in oil drilling.

• Ricky encountered a lot of racism and bias, but he would take his paycheck and use it.

• At a rural bar, he drank heavily and then went outside to relieve himself.

• In the bar parking lot, he felt the white men's hostility, and...

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