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Based on the story, it is likely for many readers to comply that Junior is viewed as a traitor with his culture, race, and family. The idea of the agreement is accompanied by the textual evidence extracted in the story. For instance, junior is portrayed as a teenager boy who emanates from the Indian s race. Therefore, logic suggests that a person must be loyal and patriotic to his/her race, unlike Junior. Instead of being grateful for being an Indian, he finds a way of running away from the Spokane Indian reserve because of poverty. The story suggests that junior is completely unable to acknowledge the poverty facing his family and culture. Therefore, he opts to run away in a white school that is twenty-two miles away from his the reservation

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