Legendary Frybread Drive-In: "You Had One Job," by Andrea L. Rogers

by Cynthia Leitich Smith
Sandy June's Legendary Frybread Drive-In is a magical place where Indigenous teens can find love, support, comfort, and community — no matter where in space or time they come from.

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  1. bison
    a large humped animal having hooves and shaggy hair
    The bison weren’t going anywhere, and Maggie was lost again.
  2. wary
    marked by keen caution and watchful prudence
    Then, wary, they moved away.
  3. portrait
    any likeness of a person, in any medium
    As soon as she was ready, Maggie drug her out to stand in front of another Osage family’s cornfield so she could shoot a few portraits.
  4. temporarily
    for a limited time only; not permanently
    Maggie’s father had recently passed, and she and her little sister, Virginia, were temporarily living with their aunt Mabel and uncle Roy in Michigan while her mom finished nursing school back in Oklahoma.
  5. fickle
    liable to sudden unpredictable change
    Suddenly, as if one body, the bison turned and stared across the field of big bluestem—the way she was supposed to go, according to her fickle map app.
  6. cut to the chase
    skip to the most important part of a topic; get to the point
    Holy, this auntie cut to the chase.
  7. smitten
    affected by something overwhelming
    “Maggie Wilson? Cherokee? I knew your daddy. He came here a time or two. Was real proud of you and your little sister. And smitten with your mom. Wait there.”
  8. proposition
    a suggestion offered for acceptance or rejection
    Here’s my proposition: Over the next two hours, with my help, you can fry up nearly three hundred pieces of frybread.
  9. proximity
    the property of being close together
    She wished she hadn’t had to trade getting to be with her mother for losing proximity to her best friend.
  10. mural
    a painting that is applied to a wall surface
    “For the mural,” Lucy said slowly.
  11. stylized
    using artistic forms and conventions to create effects
    She noticed Lucy at a Rock the Native Vote table talking to a woman with a stylized image of a muskrat on her T-shirt and some Cherokee syllabary.
  12. canvass
    solicit votes from potential voters in an electoral campaign
    “Maggie, this is Ruth Muskrat Bronson. She’s raising money and signing up volunteers to canvass neighborhoods and drive Elders to their polling places.”
  13. polling place
    a site where voters go to cast their votes in an election
    “Maggie, this is Ruth Muskrat Bronson. She’s raising money and signing up volunteers to canvass neighborhoods and drive Elders to their polling places.”
  14. spiel
    artful or slick talk used to persuade
    Ruth began her spiel.
  15. befuddled
    perplexed by many conflicting situations or statements
    A tall kid with long black hair wearing a sheepskin-lined jean jacket, big silver belt buckle, and a black cowboy hat was looking around the grounds, obviously befuddled.
Created on Mon Feb 23 08:54:05 EST 2026 (updated Tue Mar 24 16:45:00 EDT 2026)

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