Omri realizes that Little Bear somehow has been transported 200 years from the past to the present day. The man says, “Little Bear,” adding that he is the son of an Iroquois chief. Omri grabs him and brings him onto the dresser he apologizes, then asks his name. He offers him a toy tepee but the Indian rejects it, saying he lives in a longhouse. Omri brings him tiny bits of bread, cheese, corn, and a few drops of Coke, a drink the Indian likes.įearing the tiny man will turn back into a toy if he leaves him in the cupboard, Omri asks him to come out. Sobbing with regret, he locks up the box, but later he hears more noises, opens the cupboard, and finds the Indian alive and hungry. He hurries home and opens the cupboard to find a toy Indian lying inside.
Omri promises to continue the conversation after school, and he locks the cabinet.Īt school, the boy worries all day about the tiny man. They talk the Indian can speak broken English. He tries to pick up the tiny man, but he stabs Omri with a very small knife. He opens it to find that the toy Indian has come alive. The next morning, he wakes to noises from the cabinet. He places the toy Indian into the cupboard and locks it with the key. One is a fancy key given to his mother by her grandmother Omri makes a birthday wish, and the key works perfectly. He wants a key that fits its lock, so his mother lets him search through her key collection. Omri loves cupboards to put things in, and he places the toy Indian in the cabinet.
His brother Gillon gives him a small metal cupboard, like a bathroom medicine cabinet, found in a back alley. On his birthday, Omri’s friend Patrick gives him a toy Indian figurine. Please see the Contextual Analysis section of this guide for more information on Indigenous terminology in North America. This study guide may also reproduce the author’s use of the term however, the term is generally used in reference to 19th- and 20th-century depictions of Indigenous Americans on television and in toys, and therefore it is used more to describe the trope/stereotype, not the people.
This book uses the phrase “Indian” to refer to Indigenous Americans. The ebook version of the 2010 reprint edition, illustrated by Brock Cole, forms the basis for this study guide. Barrie Award for outstanding contributions to children’s arts. Author Lynne Reid Banks is a former actor and TV journalist who has penned nearly four dozen novels for adults and children, including two that have been made into films.
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