1. "Sweetgrass" is more than the name of the book's central character. Research the role that the plant, sweetgrass, played, and still plays, in First Nations' cultural traditions.

2. To prevent members of her family from starving to death, Sweetgrass fed them fish, a major cultural food taboo, and, because of her actions, some of her family survived. One way of explaining what happened is to say that the "end" result, Sweetgrass saving lives, excused her "means" of achieving that result (i.e., violating a major food taboo saved lives). Conduct a debate with the following focus: Be it resolved that the end justifies the means.

3. "Grandmother undid the laces of the baby's carrying bag. The baby made a face at her own bad stink. She really needed her moss changed." The preceding passage is just one of many examples that Hudson...