
By Zitkala-Ša
Zitkala-Sa wrestled with the conflicting impacts of yank Indian and white tradition all through her lifestyles. Raised on a Sioux reservation, she was once knowledgeable at boarding faculties that enforced assimilation and used to be witness to significant occasions in white-Indian kin within the past due 1800s and early 1900s. Tapping her afflicted own heritage, Zitkala-Sa created tales that remove darkness from the tragedy and complexity of the yankee Indian adventure. In evocative prose laced with political savvy, she forces new brooding about the perceptions, assumptions, and customs of either Sioux and white cultures and increases problems with assimilation, id, and race family members that stay compelling this present day.