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Paraphrase Junior’s insight into what it is like being an American Indian off the reservation.

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Junior says that leaving the reservation means living between two worlds. Off the rez he’s often the only Native kid, treated as exotic or a curiosity and judged by stereotypes he didn’t choose, while back home he’s viewed as a traitor for trying to fit in. He has to change how he speaks and acts to survive, translate between cultures, and bear the loneliness and guilt of belonging fully to neither place even as he chases new opportunities.