Chapters 1-5
Chapter 1
-John being Born.
-Came out of 1957 Chevy.
-The white doctor is 29 yrs old.
-He grew up in Iowa or illinois.
-This is 3rd baby he has delivered here.
-1 white, 2 indians.
-John's Birth mother is only 14 yrs old.
-The driver of the 1957 Chevy is a cousin.
-Baby John kidnapped from birth mother from man in white jumpsuit.
-Helicopter circles downtown Seattle, moves past Lake Washington, Mercer Island, hovers over the city of Bellevue.
-Pilot searches for Landing area : 5 acres of green, green grass.
-Jumpsuit man hands John to the white women: Olivia Smith.
-Johns adoption family is Olivia and Daniel Smith.
Chapter 2
-When Smith's aware of Indian baby Jonn, his birth mother is 6 months pregnant.
-Smith's could not get pregnant and was hard to adopt a white baby.
-The Adoption Agency refused to divulge John's tribal affiliation and sealed all of his birth records, revealing only that jonh's birth mother was 14 yrs old.
-Olivia read books about the Sioux, Navajo, and Winnebago.
-They named baby John after his Grandfather who was born in Germany.
-Olivia would say words in Navajo such as "moon" which is Apache.
-Olivia and Daniele wanted John to be baptized by an Indian, and they searched for days & weeks for the only Indian Jesuit in the Pacific Northwest.
-Father Duncan, a Spokane Indian Jesuit, strange man.
-When John was 6, Father Duncan took him to see the Chapel of the North American Martyrs in downtown Seattle.
-Father Duncan's visits continued untill John was 7 yrs old.
-Olivia and Daniel told John he moved to Arizona.
-Duncan was removed from duty and shipped to retreat in Arizona.
-He walked into the Desert one week after arrived at retreat & never seen again.
-John attended St Francis Catholic School from the very beginning.
-John danced with a few pretty white girls in H.S. : Mary, Margaret, and Stephanie.
-There were 376 at St. Francis.
-Along with 3 black kids, john was one of the four non-white students in the school.
-John played varsity Basketball for 2 yrs, but never started.
-He only played because his father, Daniel, St. Francis Alumni, was star player.
-Daniel read about an all-Indian basketball tournament at Heritage high school in North Seattle.
-Daniel and John watched a game between a Sioux team & Yakama Indians.
-The best player on the court was a chubby guy named Arnold, Yakama indian.
-Everyone telling jokes, laughing - ceremony used to drive away personal demons.
-John never became good Bball player, but graduated on time in 1987.
-During his freshman yr in H.S., John had read an article about a group of Mohawk Indian steel workers who helped build the World Trade Centers in New York.
-John seeked out to do this & refused to go to college.
-Daniel Smith was an Architect.
-John now 27 yrs old, stepped onto the 40th floor of unfinished building in Seattle.
-Now he was 6 feet, 6 inches tall, heavily muscled, young construction worker. His black hair was tall and tucked under his hard hat.
-John started hearing noises in his head. Noises first started when he was 10 yrs old, when he heard strange music.
-John was needed on 33rd floor.
-John knew if he was a real indian, he would have called the wind.
-He wanted to drop the foreman from the 33rd floor he was on.
-Chuck needed John's help on the 33rd floor.
-"john needed to kill a white man." pg 25
Chapter 3
-John thinking about which white man he wants to kill.. poor/rich ?
-The poorest white man in the world stole aluminum cans from Jonh's Garbage.
-Every Monday john set the cans outside for recyling truck, but poor man got them.
-John new priests had cut the tongues of Indians who continued to speak their tribal language.
-he gathered the tongues in his backpack and buried them in foundation of Bank building.
-After work, rode elevator with foreman and a couple other co-workers: Jim & Jerry.
-John walked to Univ. of Washington campus, and heard drums.
-Then he saw a crowd of Indians gathered outside a large auditorium: Hec Edmundson Pavilion.
-John met Marie there, she was the activities coordinator for the Native American Students Alliance at the University and thought she'd found a reqruit.
-John's adopted parents never told him what kind of Indian he was : they didnt know.
-They only knew and told him about his mothers birth age : 14 yrs old.
-When asked by white people, John said he was Sioux
-When asked by Indian people, John said he was Navajo.
-Marie is Spokane, same as Father Duncan.
-History Teacher Buddy at the Univ. is a Hopi.
-The Dancing at the Univ. was an illegal Pow Wow, not approved by the Univ.
-Marie organized the illegal Pow Wow
-Marie: started reading at age 3, bright child & passed all other children.
-Marie could not speak Spokane, thought of as a lesser Indian.
-Maries mother: Speech therapist at the tribal school, and her father, the principal.
-Marie learned how to fight from her best friend, Sugar.
-She stole knife from H.S. and chased Double Andy across the playground.
-Marie's nose had been broken 4 times before she graduated Highschool.
-After 2 yrs at tribal college, she was accepted into the Univ. of Wash. on full scholer.
-Marie was 23, near the end of her final year as English Major when she met John.
-John said Marie was pretty, small-boned woman at least a food shorter than he was. Her black hair very long, hanging below her waist, with her wire-rim glasses.
-John was talked into Dancing with Marie. "the owl dance"
-John knew many indian tribes believed the owl was a messenger of death.
-It was a broom owl dance: one women in middle of circle holding a broom.
-Marie also worked at a homeless center downtown.
-Little girl named Kim also danced with John
-Kim had huge brown eyes and short brown hair, and braces.
-Kim was a twim, her sister was Arlene.
-John followed a white kid on the campus and had a lot of rage against him.
Chapter 4
-John and his mother share a bedroom with two girl cousins.
-John's 2 uncles and 2 aunts share another bedroom.
-John Maternal grandparents share the third bedroom.
-Everyone in the house plays Scrabble.
-All the E tiles were missing in the Scrabble game.
-John's Grandparents love thier coffee black & his mother mixes hers w/ lots of sugar
-John's Grandmother made him a grassdancing outfit because he loves to dance.
-John is 4 yrs old when he dances at a pow wow for the first time.
-They dance in order of age. The oldest dancers first, to the youngest: John.
-When John is 10 he likes PB&J sandwiches.
-John's mother makes the best beef stew in Indian history.
-They all love Fry Bread.
-at 10, John's "playground" with his friends are the pipes.
-Crazy Randy climbs to the top of the pipes and hangs down from the rim.
-In the 5 yrs the pipes were left there, nobody got hurt.
-When John climbed inside, he saw Dawn, the most beatufil Indian girl.
-Dawn was hiding from Verla and them.
-Dawn asked John if he liked her, and then John kissed her.
-John knows that dinner is the best meal of all.
-John is now 16 yrs old.
-John's cousins, the little girls, sang christmas carols, no matter what time of the year
-John tells the longest stories.
Chapter 5
-The killer believed in the Knife.
-Special knife needed a special Sheath.
-Since the killer could not sleep, there was plenty of time to build a Sheath.
-The killer was left handed.
-The killer followed white men, selected at random.
-He first saw Justin Summers at the Univ.
-Justin ate Thai food by himself & read a magazine.
-After he finished eating he walked toward the Burke-Gilman Trail.
-The killed forced his blade into the white man's Belly.
-The killer had learned many ceremonies, but rarely practiced them.
-The killed carried the body to an empty house.
-The killed cut the white man's scalp away and stuffed the blood souvenir into a pocket.
-The killer was drenched in blood: soaked shirt, jacket, and pants.
-The killer tore the white man's eyes from his face and swallowed them whole.
-Killer pulled 2 white owl feathers out of another pocket, and set them on the white man's chest.
-Blood soaked into the feathers, stained them a dark red.
Indian Killer Ch: 6-14
Ch 6
Begins with introduction of Truck Schultz, a radio spokesperson for KWIZ.
Truck used to host late night jazz and now host a radio talk show w/ a hundred thousand listeners.
Talks about the murdered white man that was scalped and ritually mutated who was discovered at a house in Fremont that same morning.
Says that his sources tell him that it might have been an American Indian that did it.
Asked the audience for their opinion and make a call.
Ch 7
Marie Polatkin(the woman that John Smith met at the powwow) walked in to the first day of her Native American Literature class.
Students gossiped about the murder in Fremont saying things like, "Like an Indian would do it(scalping)." and "Yeah Indians started that whole scalping business."
Marie, listening all along responds to them and says, "You all�ve got it all wrong." and, "The French were the first to scalp people in this country. Indians just copied them."
Marie signed up for the class because she heard that the professor Dr. Clarence
Mather, a white professor supposedly loved Indians.
Accused of being a wannabe Indian by Marie.
She was shocked at the reading material on the course reading list because all of the "Native American" books that were supposed to be read were contradicting to her because all of the authors were white.
Marie also hated the book that was written by the professor because of the inconsistencies and thought that he was full of shit.
She questions his book verbally during a discussion early into class.
After the professor asked for her name, he immediately recognized her cousin who was his former student, Reggie Polatkin, her cousin.
Reggie had been expelled from the university after assaulting Mather for reasons that were never clear.
She continues to question and challenge the professor at all angles of his teachings and contradicts him.
David Rogers is a white student in the same class who took it because
of a
sense of guilt and vague curiosity, was fascinated with Marie.
David had an eye for her because she seemed exotic and bold.
David grew up in a farm near Marie?��s reservation.
Spokanes used to arrive in the middle of the night in his families farm to take camas.
On a particular night when he was twelve, David, his dad Buck and older brother
Aaron hid with their riffles to scare off the Indians that tried to steal camas(food).
A car came with seven Indians ready to take some camas.
They got scared off by the gun fire.
David felt like crying as he held the rifle in his hands.
Marie and Mathers argue over the author Jack Wilson who claims to be in the
Shilshomish tribe. But Marie argues by saying that they no longer exist as a tribe.
After class David stopped Marie to introduce himself and try to get a date but she refused and walked away.
He tried to ask her to be a study partner but she again refuses.
She thought that he wanted a guilt fuck or something to ease his pain.
Aaron asks David about the Indian class at home and David talks about Marie.
Aaron tries to get some sex talk out of David about her.
Ch 8
Mr. Russell(one of the drunks that walked by the killer of the white man in Fremont) is being questioned by the officer.
He is was asked about what he saw but replied by saying that he was too drunk to remember.
One of his friends described the killer as a shadow carrying a white guy on his shoulder.
Russell says that he had long hair but that was it.
He claims that it?��s like someone doesn?��t want him to remember.
Ch 9
John is walking in a cold rain not sure where he walked or how he arrived at the building.
The phone rings but he ignores it knowing that it was his parents. Then knocking at his door from his parents hoping to catch John.
Daniel and Olivia threatened John with group homes or medication before
John ignored his parents knocking.
John was a very sloppy and messy tenant with junk piled up in his apartment.
John stayed in bed as his parents knocked for hours.
He briefly wondered if it was Marie the Indian woman who danced with him but closed his eyes and saw Father Duncan.
Duncan was a big man half a foot taller than John.
It�s the next day and John is at work attached to a wire harness but thought that it would only save a white man.
The leather, metal and rope could tell the difference between white skin and Indian skin, John thought.
John thinks back to the past when he was at the lunch room at St. Francis High School ten years earlier.
A friend named Michael whispers to John saying, "Your mom is a babe." and continues on with the sex tease.
John holds back but eventually releases his anger and beats him up.
Mr. Taylor(principal) calls both of them into his office one at a time, but decides to give John a break and lets him go since he knows that Michael is an ass.
Back into reality, John looks for an escape route as the foreman talks to him because he did not trust him with his life.
But the foreman genuinely worried about John.
John and the foreman had never been friends even though they have been working together for so long.
John recently started to take more break time alone on the fortieth floor and spent most of his time working there alone.
During dinner at the foreman?��s home, they watched the news and saw the report on the murdered white male in Fremont and pulls his wife closer and thought of John.
The foreman began to have a queasy stomach before work and his wife wondered if her was afraid of John.
The foreman dreamed about standing on the top floor of the sky scrapper in Seattle and it was dark. A dark figure turned to his back was also there with something in his hand.
Indian Killer :: PART II � Hunting Weather
Chapters 10-17
Chapter 10
Blue Van rolled slowly down dirt road on Tulalip Indian Reservation.
Interstate 5 could be heard in the distance
Couple in the van - Spokane Indian couple - were not comforted by those distant sounds of civilization.
She could hear big trucks hauling their cargo north to Canada and south to Seattle.
-She could also hear the whine of a traffic helicopter.
They would have to walk through the woods to get to the freeway.
He drove 5 miles down the road untill the asphalt turned into dirt and a sign proclaimed PRIMITIVE ROAD - no warning signs.
-She always felt like a dog when she had to go pee in the woods.
She smelled an animal, it was a dead porcupine.
-Indian Grandmothers could always use more quills.
David Rogers- dressed in Univ. of Washington sweatshirt and blue jeans.
-A single bullet hole between his eyes, not much blood, his tennis shoes were untied.
Chapter 11
Truck Schultz - homegrown conservative talk-show host.
Truck had a call on line 3 from Johnny Law.
-Johnny Law- the pseudonym for trucks source in the Washington state patrol office.
Truck recieve piece of Mark Jones Pajamas and the two bloody owl feathers.
Johnny law said serial killer, (Indian Killer) was loose in the seattle area.
-Leaving behind 2 owl feathers as a calling card, the Indian Killer had murdered and scalped Justin Summers, kidnapped Mark Jones, and was a suspect in the disapprearance of David Rogers.
If truck broadcasted this news, police threatened to shut him down if he went public.
Johnny law- said they found body of David Rogers on Tulalip Reservation 30 minutes ago.
-He was murdered, shot in the head, and the money he won was gone.
David Rogers- 21 years old, junior english major, 3.1 gpa, worked part-time in computer lab.
David's brother = Aaron, mother died of cancer when he was 5 yrs old. Father = Buck (living on family far outside of Spokane.)
David's money that was stolen was from winning 2 thousand dollors at a slot machine.
-His body was dumped near the Tulalip Tribal Casino.
-Both David Rogers and Justin Summers had been scalped.
Truck got a package from Indian Killer- Inside piece of Mark Jones Pajamas & Calling Card.
Indian Killer kidnapped and most likely murdered Mark Jones.
We give Indians everything they want :: Fishing rights, hunting lands, Illegal Casinos. "Super Citizens."
Truck said there is more Indians living now then there was when Columbus landed.
Military lead Philip Sheridan-" The only good Indian Killer is a dead Indian Killer."
Chapter 12
Truck Schlutz called Aaron Rogers and told him about his brother's body
-Aaron, Barry Church, and Sean Ward went cruising downtown seattle, looking for Indians to attack.
- They had baseball bats and ski masks.
- Aaron drove a Toyota 4Runner.
No Indians outside the Elliot Bay Book Company so went to Seattle Center on Queen Anne Hill.
Cornelius and Zera- Homeless Indians on Queen Anne Hill.
-Spent a year of nights sleeping in the doorway next to blockbuster.
-been together for 5 years, spent half of that time homeless.
-evicted from 3 apartments
Cornelius- Makah Indian, deep- sea fisherman, manual laborer too.
Zera- Puyallup Indian, Manic depressive, been hospitalized 3 times.
-Had thermos full of coffee from Mcdonalds. And loaf of bread with money Cornelius made selling "real change", the newspaper written and distributed by the homeless.
David Rogers- loved Hemingways Nick Adams (book)
-In highschool, was fourth- string recieve in football.
-Aaron was alstar linebacker.
-Both went to Univ. of Washington, as they moved in with Sean and Barry.
They attacked Cornelius and Zera
-Zera jumped on one of them, as white mask beat Cornelius almost to death.
-Four cracked ribs, puncutred lungs, various constusions and abrasions, concussion.
white mask= Aaron, Purple mask pulled aaron off cornelius and blue mask was driver.
Chapter 13
Olivia and Daniele = Parents of John Smith who was missing.
radio announced Indian Killers kidnapping of Mark Jones.
- This worried the parents about their son.
Daniele went looking for John a few minutes before seven in the mourning.
-Drove from Bellevue over the 520 bridge west to Seattle, daniele saw a few sailboats out for an early cruise on Lake Washington.
The shadow of Mt. Rainier rose on the southern horizon.
-Local Indians believed that Rainier was a sacred place, not to be climbed or trivialized.
Outside the Elliot Bay Book Company, Daniele saw a homeless man in a wheelchair.
-Indian was about 40 yrs old, long greasy hair, wore a U.S. army jacket and red beret.
- Daniele gave the Indian a couple dollors.
Daniele asked him if he knew john smith.
-Homeless guy said he knew no Jonh smith, only agnes and king, marie the sandwich lady and Robert.
-Homeless guy said Crazy Horse(Oglala Sioux) is the Indian Killer.
-Then he said the Indian Killer has Crazy Horse magic, Chief Joseph Brains, Geronimo's Heart, and Wovoka's vision. "hes all those badass indians rolled up in one"
-Said the score was 10 million to 3 in favor of the white guys
That night, both Olivia and Daniele dreamed- Daniele dreamed john was there, he said he could smell him, but Olivia knew he wasnt.
-when he was young he smelled of cut grass, pine trees, bandaids and hydrogen peroxide, strawberry kool-aid, and ivory soap. As he grew older, he smelled of Old spice and dirty tennis shoes, second hand smoke, ocean, pepperoni pizza, and musty libraries.
Olivia opened the fridge and saw Daniele had late night snack (leftover roast)
Chapter 14
Wilson awoke slowly- song was playing about rain and fire.
- As young boy, was fostered, didnt know which family was taking care of him.
- he always wet his bed and most the families treated him poorly because of this.
The Johnsons = kind and considerate. The Sheldons = cruel. The Hawkinses = made him sleep in his wet pee night after night. The Crowleys = locked him in dark closet for hours.
-Stained the carpet of the Lambeer's.
Didnt have many friends, mainly pets, and sometimes he torchered them.
As an Adult: Wilson works on his new novel : "The Indian Killer"
-Dreamed about David Rogers death, Justin Summers, and heard cries from Mark Jones.
After finding out about the baseball bat beatings, he went into downtown Seattle.
- caught a bus downtown to occidental park in pioneer square. it was Thursday.
-on Thursday afternoon's they had a live band play which was terrible at singing.
Wilson was a Cop, and recognized Indians from when he was a rookie.
Local phone company set up promotional display - Pacific Sun -
-Six telephones and a pile of directories.
Wilson watched Indian stand next to a businessman making a phone call to his wife.
Indian wanted to call his home reservation in Montana.
-His current long distance carrier is Moccasin Telegraph.
- Homeless Indian gave the Pac. Sun lady fony info. so he could call.
Across the Street - Marie Polatkin was in her van with sandwiches.
-Ten yr old van was white, with "Seattle Open Heart Mission" painted on both sides.
Marie recognized Wilson from reading her book in Native American Literature Class.
Dr. Mather ( professor ) told the class Wilson was giving public reading at Elliot Book Co.
When Marie was 9 yrs old she rubbed her face with sandpaper to be white.
-Now shes proud of being an Indian.
-Pretend Indians = mixed blood
The homeless guy = King, a flathead from Arlee, Montana.
King left reservation in 1980 to attend college and be a teacher.
-He made is through 1 semister before he ran out of money.
-Then he worked on a fishing boat for a few years before struck by hit/run driver.
King then became homeless for most of the last 10 yrs.'
Medicine man wants Indian Killer to get revenge.
King's tried calling his reservation in Montana to talk to his sister, but talked to 14 yr old boy.
Marie's sanwiches :: Ham and Cheese, Turkey and Swiss, Peanut butter and jelly.
- King hadnt had PB&J in a long time.
Marie never had enough sandwiches, always wanted enough.
Chapter 15
Mark Jones- very young, 6 yrs old, but smart.
-Knew killed would never let him leave.
Killer cut a piece of Marks Pajamas' pants.
-Mark cried to damage of his daredevil pajamas.
Found strength to stand, but quickly fell back down with his mouth gagged.
Chapter 16
Last Precinct- Cop hangout in downtown Seattle.
-One room, 10 tables, 40 chairs, and a jukebox.
Wilson only drank Milk at the last Precinct.
Cops segregated themselves.
Wilson sat with Randy Peone- patrol cop from downtown, Bobby, a SWAT sharpshooter with ulcers, and Terrble Ted, drunk and belligerent homicide detective.
George is working on the scalping investigation on the two people.
Peone asked if wilson was going to be at a bookstore.
- Wilson said yes, Elliot Bay Book Company tomarrow night.
Wilson and Ted almost got in a fight.
Bobby trying to make jokes to calm them down.
Chloe- waitress, tall, beautiful, and hated cops.
Ted said he hates Indians
-Said some Indian cut off the top of that kids head and left 2 bloody owl feathers.
Peone and Bobby heald Ted back from hitting Wilson.
-Wilson walked to his truck and went home.
-Drove up to Denny Way to Broadway on Capital Hill.
-This was safer place in neighborhood then downtown Seattle.
The owl is a messenger of Death, or Evil.
-If you were visited by an owl, that meant you were going to die soon.
Wilson often visited owls in Woodland Park Zoo; they often came to him in his dreams.
In one dream he's in a real car with his parents when an owl crashes through the windshield.
Wilson's father never smoked a cigar in his life.
Truck Schultz- said citizens should sterilize any girl whose I.Q. is below one hundred.
Chapter 17
Dr. Mather teaches Marie's Native American Literature Class.
Dr. Mather was wearing a huge bandage on his forehead
Marie Polatkin- knew he hadnt been attacked.
Mather knocked himself on a low overhang in the Anthropology building basement.
There was only 10 students in class this evening.
Aristotle Little Hawk- the alter ego to Wilsons Indian Killer.
Marie argued with her teacher.
Mather lived on the Navajo Indian Reservation for three months.
-He was involved in the American Indian movement during the late sixties and early seventies.
-He smuggled food to the Indians at Wounded Knee.
Jack Wilson is a Shilshomish Indian
Custer was an Indian Killer.
The teacher was tired of Maries outrage and asked her to drop the class.
Marie then said an Indian man is not doing these killings.
