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A Warrior's Daughter Analysis

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The same in A Warrior 's Daughter by Zitkala-Sa’s who focused on the descriptions of nature and how freedom or courage isn 't too natural among women of Native American tribes. From the tale, we can infer that the woman that experiencing life in a Native American tribe is completely different from that of a man. Their functions and responsibilities in life are completely different as told in the description from all the memoirs that we have read.The same in A Warrior 's Daughter by Zitkala-Sa’s who focused on the descriptions of nature and how freedom or courage isn 't too natural among women of Native American tribes. From the tale, we can infer that the woman that experiencing life in a Native American tribe is completely different from

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