Shi-shi-etko doesn’t want a repeat of what happened the previous year when the people at the residential school cut off her braids and threw them away. She asks her grandmother to cut them for her, and afterward she and Shin-chi go “up the mountain to put their braids away.” Ask students: What does this mean? Why would she return her braids to the earth? Why would Shi-shi-etko want to cut off the braids herself?
