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Part 1: Chapter 1 - 4

• The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Erdrich, Louise. The Antelope Woman. Harper Perennia, 2016. Updated version.

• In Part 1: Chapter 1, "Father's Milk," this chapter is told in the third person.

• The story takes readers deep into the past, during a raid on an Ojibwe village mistaken for a hostile group during a time of fear and starvation.

• A cavalry soldier named Scranton Teodorus Roy witnesses a dog carrying a child on its back, enclosed in a frame-board dikinaagan, vanish into the distance.

• Intrigued and moved by this sight, Roy follows the dog and child, leaving his army post behind.

• The chapter then shifts to provide background information on Roy's upbringing.

• He is the youngest son of a Quaker father and a reclusive poet mother who created a small Pennsylvania community focused on intellectual conversations.

• Roy's life takes a turn when...

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