Endurance means to bite the bullet.To suffer pain without expressing fear; to grit one’s teeth and do what has to be done. This phrase derives from the supposed practice of giving a wounded soldier a bullet to bite on to channel his reaction to intense pain. This practice preceded the first use of anesthesia (in the U.S.) in 1844. By 1891, the phrase was used figuratively.
Juniors has endured a lot more than the other Indians have. Junior has taken a lot of ridicule, and has been in more fights than the others. Junior gets in a lot more fights than the others because of his unnatural body stature. The Spokane Indian Reservation doesn't really seem like a place for a kids. Although it seems like the other Indians are dealing with everything better than Junior. They all seem real tough and and unbeatable by others.
The first sentence was a copy and paste from
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/endurance
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