In A Red Girl’s Reasoning and The Jailing of Cecelia Capture, female Native American characters married to non-natives subsequently have dysfunctional marriages. In both narratives, participants in the marriage entered with false assumptions, leading to misery for the couples. Charlie, in A Red Girl’s Reasoning, married without fully understanding marriage, marrying Christine mainly for her uniqueness and beauty. The marriage then collapses when Charlie displays his ignorance for her culture. In
