Auntie’s anger and refusal to let Daunis attend the blanket party is confusing for Daunis. Daunis feels like going is going to feel good, right, and just—she’ll be protecting one of her community members, after all. But Auntie subtly implies that blanket parties actually shouldn’t have to happen at all—that is, they wouldn’t happen if Native women had some of the privileges that Daunis, as a well-off and light-skinned woman, has.