This has to do with the culture of a tribal member.

It's part of our culture not to cut a girl's hair until her coming of age ceremony. The only ones allowed to do that are the parents. Nobody asked for permission.

I grew up in a storytelling culture, a tribal culture, but also in an American storytelling culture.

I've sort of escaped my background, as people often do, through art and culture.

No. But then the American Government--whatever branch--has never really grasped the concept of tribal identity.

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