What the indirect object in this sentence? " American Indians showed settlers how to plant corn."

Settlers are the indirect object.

Explanation:

an indirect object is a noun or pronoun that occurs in addition to a direct object. The indirect object is always comes after a verb.

it indicates the person or thing that receives what is being given or done

So in the sentence above the people receiving are the settlers.

What they are receiving is learning how to plant corn.

American Indians (direct object)  showed (verb) settlers (indirect objects)

how to plant corn (the thing being given)

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"Settlers" is the indirect object.

Explanation:

You can think of the sentence recast in this way -- if it helps:

              S                 V                    DO                       IO

American Indians showed how to plant corn to the settlers.

Direct objects are the primary 'recipients' of the action, while indirect objects are the secondary 'recipients' of the action.

                    IO  DO                            DO     IO

Ex.    I gave you this.     VS.    I gave this to you.

i have read the novel roll of thunder hear my cry by mildred d. taylor.

1. this isn't like any other story i've read or watched because it is about a black family in mississippi right after slavery in the u.s. had become illegal. most of the novels i have read were about slavery. another point is that the author of the novel used symbolism in a way i haven't seen before. for example she uses thunder as something negative meaning something bad will happen. but by the end of the novel, she made thunder a good thing.

2.   one character that changed during the novel was stacey. stacey is the eldest child of the black logan family. around the begging of the novel stacey was avoiding the white boy jeremy simms. he had a dislike for jeremy's family. but at the end of the novel stacey began to like jeremy.

3. the author starts the novel with the problem that the children of the logan family have to avoid the white kid school bus while walking to school.