Throughout the poem the speaker gave the audience small hints and most of them were based on dominance and time frame. In the first stanza Nelson states, “…we used to wrap ourselves at play in its folds and be chieftains and princesses.” Chieftains and princesses are forms of power and the chief is the highest form of power in Indian tribes, so there was a form of dominance there between the speaker and her older sister. The older was the chieftain was the speaker’s older sister and the speaker herself was the princess right under her. Also in the same quote she says, “used to”, so the reader can interpret that they are not as close as they used to be and maybe it was the jealousy and envy that drove them away from each
Throughout the poem the speaker gave the audience small hints and most of them were based on dominance and time frame. In the first stanza Nelson states, “…we used to wrap ourselves at play in its folds and be chieftains and princesses.” Chieftains and princesses are forms of power and the chief is the highest form of power in Indian tribes, so there was a form of dominance there between the speaker and her older sister. The older was the chieftain was the speaker’s older sister and the speaker herself was the princess right under her. Also in the same quote she says, “used to”, so the reader can interpret that they are not as close as they used to be and maybe it was the jealousy and envy that drove them away from each