Joy Harjo’s poems “She Had Some Horses” and “I Give You Back” explore the relationship between the subjugation of women and women’s desire to reclaim agency and be liberated from patriarchal society. Harjo’s poems are written from a Native American feminine perspective that emphasizes the oppression of women by American patriarchal society. Nancy Lang supports this assertion in “Twin Gods Bending Over”: Joy Harjo and Poetic Memory” by writing: “Harjo’s poetry most clearly illustrates the multi-voiced nature of any marginalized poetry” and that Harjo’s writing expresses the ideals of “ Native American women’s poetry in particular” (41). “She Had Some Horses” and “I Give You Back” convey how the speaker is constricted by her sex and the supremacy