Summary

Part 2 begins by continuing the folktale about the twins. The beads that they use are made from human bodies and the tale states that humans are “as crucial to this making as other animals” and are “no more and no less important than the deer” (67).

The narration switches to present tense in Chapter 5, and the narrator identifies himself as an Ojibwe reservation dog named Almost Soup who is descended from Sorrow. Almost Soup offers a quick synopsis to “bring time and place back into the picture” (72). Zosie and Mary died, and Peace had one son and “feared to have more children lest they turn out to be twins”, but ended up caring for her twin granddaughters in her old age (72). They were named Giizis and Noodin, and Peace hoped for “happy spirits”, but they “turned out shrewd, sour, and sometimes ferocious, like...