... to really understand your cultures" struggles unless they are presented with writings and information that come "within" your culture itself. For example, from Alice Walker's book, The Color Purple, Alice writes about the pain and experiences that she has faced or has witnessed. Alice writes, "Your daddy didn't know how to git along, he say. Whitefolks lynch him. Too sad a story to tell pitful little growing ... so was Native-Americans language and literacy. From Zitkala-Sa's Boarding School Experiences it goes on to say: Indians themselves have produced a form of "captivity narrative"-...

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