For example, from Alice Walker's book, The Color Purple, Alice writes about the pain and experiences that she has faced or has witnessed. ... From Zitkala-Sa's Boarding School Experiences it goes on to say: Indians themselves have produced a form of "captivity narrative"--- those materials written by Native children legally taken from their tribes for up to a decade, removed from their families, languages, religions, clothing, ritual, lands and virtually everything that identified them as Indian (e-course). ... When reading from the book The Color Purple, what one gains from th...

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