What is the relationship of the stories they’ve been told and the stories they tell themselves?

its on Tony Loneman from the book There, There by Tommy Orange and analyze how they grapple with the history of the native people, their own family history, their own identity as native, and the Oakland around them. What is the relationship of the stories they’ve been told and the stories they tell themselves? should have a thesis that makes some sort of claim. This is an interpretive paper.