Compare and contrast the Mescalero Apache girls’ initiation rite, as described by Talamentez, to the Hopi initiation rite described by Gill.

Compare and contrast the Mescalero Apache girls’ initiation rite, as described by Talamentez, to the Hopi initiation rite described by Gill. How does each ceremony transform its participant(s)? Refer to the elements of initiation rites listed by Grimes on p. 106-107 as you identify the most important similarities and differences between these two rites.

In your answer, be sure to draw directly from: 1) the Talamentez reading, 2) the Gill reading and 3) the Grimes reading. You are not required to include direct quotations from these readings, but do be sure to indicate which source(s) you are drawing from by including phrases like “as mentioned in the Talamantez reading.” Although not required, you may also supplement your answer by including insights from the lecture video and/ or the short video, “Inside an Apache Rite of Passage Into Womanhood.”

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