Zitkala-Sa

Zitkala-Sa’s autobiography informs her readers of the damaging and traumatizing effects of assimilation by utilizing her life experiences as a narrative, demonstrating how living under an oppressive and dominant culture was an internal struggle between society's expectations and her own cultural identity. Sa’s experience is especially unique considering her mixed heritage as well. Zitkala-Sa’s The School Days of an Indian Girl is an autobiography that was published in the Atlantic Monthly in 1901

would be encouraged and individuality would be frowned upon. Yet, we see in the stories of Zitkala-Sa the importance of individuality being taught to her growing up, and her attempts as a child, as well as an adult, to rebel against anything that would oppose it. We see her fight and struggle to hold on to her individuality, despite, as a child being forced to become Americanized. Through her stories, Zitkala Sa demonstrates to us that freedom, culture, and Faith are fundamentally interwoven into our

Returning to Zitkala-Sa, we can see how her work strongly contests Turner’s ideas about what it means to be “evolved.” At home in the west, Zitkala-Sa and her family and friends had well-established, respected customs for everything: food collection, meal preparation, hairstyles, fashion, crafting, storytelling, religion, and more. Without recognizing this point we risk falling into the same mindset as Turner, in believing that Indian culture was primitive at best and nonexistent at worst. Conversely

Zitkala-Sa's Assimilation Barriers By 1860, there were 60 missionary schools which were not known for most American societies because they were not mentioned in the U.S. history, and there were 6200 Native Americans children in it. Cultural assimilation is the process of taking in, fully understanding and absorbing information or ideas. There are two factors which hindered Zitkala-Sa assimilation to the European American culture. The first factor is how people from different cultures inhabit different

Both Lynda Barry and Zitkala-sa would agree with the statement “school should be a safe place for all students,” yet both disagree with the statement “school is a safe place for all students”. Both Lynda Barry and Zitkala-sa agree that “school should be a safe place for all students” Barry had a good experience, but Zitkala-sa does know the importance of school system. Lynda Barry describes why she agrees school should be safe by using her school experiences: “I was going to sit at my desk, with

Mark Twain and Zitkala-Sa Essay In the Mark Twain’s and Zitkala-Sa’s stories, they had an aim and idea of cold anti-colonial war against the United States. Mark Twain used Native Americans as the primary and hypocritical element against the United States aggression towards the Indian nations. Twain’s historically updated mind shaped his Missouri and Mississippi Valley 's identity that permits accessibility to his protest against global imperialism. Zitkala-Sa critiques express in depth conflicts

believed will be educated by the white missionaries to be more civilized. Zitkala-Sa, an eight years old Native American girl who was convinced to go to Eastern school despite her mother’s disapproval. Zitkala- Sa’s experiences as both student and teacher in the East World did not educate her because according to Google dictionary, educate means to give intellectual, moral, and social instruction to someone, therefore Zitkala- Sa’s did not educate her but rather turned her to a docile person, made

Mark Twain and Zitkala-Sa Twain and Zitkala-Sa offer memoirs about their own lives which also double as social critiques of the United States. The United States commercial expansion motivates their reflections and criticism of the nation. Twain expresses his dislike of the new technology of railroads and the negative effect they have on steamboat pilots and the business. Zitkala-Sa expresses her dislike of American people Americanizing her people and detaching them from their culture and traditions

immigrants during the time of Mary Antin and Zitkala-Sa. Antin and Zitkala-Sa both stress the importance of education. These women have a different background, but they both go through trials during their lives to live in America. Their experiences may be different, but suffering is not absent from either of their lives. Zitkala-Sa was first born as Gertrude Simmons, but she took the name Zitkala-Sa as a teen to represent her Indian identity (Zitkala-Sa). This Indian identity was represented throughout

Throughout much of the history of Native Americans we can see a pattern of times of intense hardship and adversity in many different forms. Likewise we can see hardship in the various Native American stories of Zitkala sa, Momaday, Alexie, and Silko. However adversity and hardship are not necessarily crippling or damning, in fact in this paper we will see how the various problems faced by these native americans, be it the fictional characters in the stories themselves or the authors of the story