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-compares her mom's braid as a "sleek black river" but hers as "tiny garden snakes": shows that she thought that she is smaller and weaker because states that "I am only half of her"
-sees her mom as a tall and a true Dakota woman because she says whats on her mind
-"she rises against the sun like a skyscraper"; thinks she's her small shadow and witness because her personality is timid which is different from her mom, 'I can only rage on paper"
-shes her witness--> becomes a writer for her mom's culture
-I can't imagine seeing my mom scared
-calls her home
-"when I draw her in a NB she takes up the entire page"
-feels as though Chicago was given to her by her mom
-mom will tell her why the Picasso painting: blue--> says she relates anecdotes I will never find in books
-narrator says "she feels helpless beside her" because her mom is upset about the grandmother's dress in the glass case and she can't do anything about it
-"my mother belongs in a grand buckskin dress"
-"few things could make my mother cry"--> her mom is a very strong person
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