Living on your own brings in many new ideas and adventures. Karana has many hard decisions to make, when she has to decided to go with childhood teaching or fending for herself. " I wonder what would happen to me if I went against the law of our tribe which forbade the making of weapons by women... would the four winds blow in from the four directions of the world and smother me as I made the weapons? Or wo

Each spring she hoped that her people would return and take her to the far off land which they had left for. Each spring she grew more and more restless for human contact. Till it came the Aleuts the hunters, they had come before. They had come to hunt otter. When they came the first time they had caused her people much pain taking the lives of their men and their leaders. Karana had longed for human contact but not with them they were the enemy. She hid away many days in a cave only leaving at night for food and water. Till one of the Aleut women found her home. Karana was cautious but interested. She befriended this enemy they would talk for hours while the men were hunting. They without saying goodbye Karana's friend left her. She must have a lot of strength to not go running after her. If I was there I would have even gone with my enemy than stay another day. But Karana with her faith believed her people would return.

uld the earth tremble, as many said, and bury me beneath its falling rocks?" The choice to build weapons sa

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Approximate Word count = 698
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)