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Read the excerpt from "The Medicine Bag."
"My father in his early manhood," Grandpa began,
"made a vision quest to find a spirit guide for his life.
You cannot understand how it was in that time, when
the great Teton Sioux were first made to stay on the
reservation. There was a strong need for guidance
from Wakantanka, the Great Spirit. But too many of the
young men were filled with despair and hatred. They
thought it was hopeless to search for a vision when the
glorious life was gone and only the hated confines of a
reservation lay ahead. But my father held to the old
ways."
How does the reservation setting create conflict in the
young people?
They do not know how to find a spirit guide.
They become afraid of the Great Spirit.
They lose hope for the future.
O They feel lonely.