I found the discussion of power in Paula Gunn Allen's piece "Where I Come From Is Like This" particularly interesting. Her internal dynamic between white and American Indian society allows her to speak to power in a unique way. He writes that he has never seen any of the women in his life as weak, but that he still holds negative images of American Indians in general in his head (31). It also speaks to the internal struggle that I think most women, or at least I myself, have experienced, when we devalue our strengths because society tells us we are weak. Contradicting my strength because I am constantly told that I am weak, or at least weaker than my male peers, is something I must unlearn, just as she struggles to unlearn the ideas white society has given her about her American Indian.