Caribou Ghosts And Untold Stories By Lenne Simpson

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"Caribou ghosts & untold stories" by Leanne Simpson is the poem I choose. The main argument the poet discusses is that were all human beings. Things such as race, sexuality, gender shouldn't differentiate us. For example in the past it wasn’t expected of women to get educated and get jobs, but rather be a housewife. Leanne Simpson was referring to that fact now days were slowly becomes more inclusive to different groups of minorities and was slowly removing labels. I plan to use this source because it is an important topic, which we struggle with even today. Society’s standards are slowly changing but people still tend to have the same mentality when it comes to gender roles. The poem is a reliable source, it shows the difficulties of being

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