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1. Jan Hudson, a member of a majority cultural group, wrote about members of a minority culture. What are the implications of such a situation? Can someone who is not a member of a cultural group write about that culture? By extension, do you think a person of one gender can write from the perspective of the other gender?
2. After the attack on the Blackfoot camp by the Assiniboin, She Fought Them Woman, Sweetgrass's grandmother, says to Shabby Bull, Sweetgrass's father, "Sweetgrass will be a warrior woman." Was Grandmother correct in her prediction? Explain.
3. Grandmother's statement that "Their [men's] lives without our [women's] lives are worth less than our lives without theirs" seems to be contradicted by the reality around her. For example, despite doing the cooking, the women eat after the men, and, while the men kill the buffalo, it is the women who...
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