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Becoming a woman is a big deal but what about finding your destiny? Many tribes take these two things very seriously especially the apache and lakota tribes. In the short story The Medicine Bag Martin is a young boy that does not appreciate his grandpa and to receive the medicine bag he has to learn to appreciate him. In the video Morning Star Feather had to complete tasks to prove her womanhood to her tribe. In this essay I will be comparing and revealing many similarities and differences that these two stories had. In addition to the similarities and differences I will be pointing out the advantages and disadvantages that these two stories provided.

To start, there were many similarities and differences between both the text and the video.
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