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Comparing The Medicine Bag And The Apache Girl
A 4 day reunion, with family and friends, all the apache tribe, These are all of the things dachina went through. 2.5 days of riding on a bus and walking, just to get to Martin's house to pass on the medicine bag. The medicine bag is about Grandpa passing on the family tradition, the medicine bag to Martin. The apache girl is about her celebrating her becoming a women. Theres plenty of similarities and differences between “The Medicine Bag” and “The Apache Girl”, here are some examples.

There are many similarities and differences in the story “The Medicine Bag” and the short clip “The apache Girl”. For example, one similarity between them is, they both are about Native American tribes. In the Medicine Bag it talks about the Lakota tradition

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