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Part I (Chapters 1 - 10)

• The following version of this book was used to create this lesson plan: Boulley, Angeline. Firekeeper's Daughter. Henry Holt, New York, 2021.

• This book is written from the first person perspective and mostly in the present tense.

• Part I is titled Waabanong (East), and it is noted that in Ojibwe Teachings, all journeys begin in the Eastern direction.

• In Chapter 1, the narrator, Daunis Lorenza Fontaine, is an 18-year-old mixed-race white and Native American woman.

• Daunis usually begins her day with a pre-dawn run, putting a pinch of semaa at the eastern base of a tree and offering a prayer to Creator.

• Daunis lives in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, and her mother's family, the Fontaines, are wealthy and white, so much so that the local college Lake State's newest dorm has her family name on it.

• Almost an hour into her run, she ends it at...

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