Mitsima
Mitsima is an older man on the reservation who teaches John practical skills such as pottery and craftwork.
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Spoiler-freeMitsima is an older man on the reservation who teaches John practical skills such as pottery and craftwork. He offers John some of the patient instruction and male companionship missing from his family life. He cannot erase John’s outsider status, and his fate after John leaves is unknown.
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