The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith Study Guide consists of approx. 39 pages of summaries and analysis on The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith by Thomas Keneally. Browse the literature study guide below:
During the summer of 1900, Tabidgi, or Jackie Smolders as he is known to the white world, learns that his maternal nephew, Jimmie Blacksmith, has married a white girl. Jimmie is a "half-breed," a result of some white man's visit to the Brentwood blacks' camp. In an effort to protect Jimmie from his white marriage, Jackie sets out with Jimmie's initiation tooth, obtained during a ritual in which it was knocked out of his mouth by Mungindi elders when he was thirteen. (
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