Zitkala-Sa

Fulfilling god’s plan, America forced Native Americans to attend boarding schools where the ideals of Christianity were implemented. In Abigail Graham’s article, “The Power of Boarding Schools,” a History of Education professor at Indiana University writes that boarding schools is a tool used to reinforce one’s ideas into individuals. Graham writes, “Boarding schools...significantly impact the social development of their students; for this reason...schools used [this] as tools for reinforcing power

In 1865 after the Civil War a new era of writing began in America. This writing was categorized as Realism and it also encompassed the sub-genres of Regionalism and Naturalism. This writing style took place in a time when America was going through major changes, it was the dawning of the Industrial Revolution. This was an era of major change in society and in culture. During this time of great change people mindsets were also changing. More immigrants were moving to America to work in factories.

"School Days of an Indian Girl" by Zitkala-Sa and "Indian Education" by Sherman Alexie both explore the challenges of Native American students' experiences in Western educational systems. "Adaptation" by Lenelle Moise and "Eleven" by Sandra Cisneros both explore the complexities of identity

the westerner is "killing the Indian in the child” (Pratt). Recognizing this policy of the assimilation was wrong, which as we know caused a great harm within the culture. As we are aware of it, destroying their identity. For instance, from the Zitkala-Sa, when the westerners were cutting the girls hair. As the

Phoenix was founded by a man by the name of Jack Swilling in the year of eighteen sixty-seven. He settled in what is now present-day Wickenburg. In the years after he moved to Phoenix, a canal was built to reroute some of the water from the Salt River into Phoenix so crops could grow from it. At this time most of the citizens in the city of Phoenix were farmers. Most of the crops that were grown in the newly developed location of Phoenix were lettuce, citrus and cotton. An post office with Jack

Abstract In this essay I will discuss and analyze the social forces that influenced American women writers of the period of 1865 to 1912. I will describe the specific roles female authors played in this period and explain how the perspectives of female authors differed from their male contemporaries. INTRODUCTION As the United States was continuing recovering from the Civil War and embracing the expansion of the West, industrialization, immigration and the growth of cities, women’s roles in

Methods that are used to define and tell the story of indigenous people are as follow. Throughout history, westerners would use negative words, images, and also use the term “animals and savages” to portray indigenous people and their culture. I ask myself, why did western historian have to define the indigenous individual as the animal? Which we all know it was very savage of those westerners to highlight and describe them as the animal. For instance, as we see throughout McGuffey article, he always

Fictitious First Contact In 1994 the film Star Trek: First Contact introduced a new threat to the United Federation of Planets – the Borg collective. The Borg is a cybernetic humanoid species with a single purpose, namely the accumulation of technology, rather than wealth, political expansion or social status. The Borg purpose is achieved through forced assimilation, a process which transforms individuals and technology into Borg humanoids, enhancing – and simultaneously controlling – individual

part 1 of the story, the girl says, “My long travel and bewildering sights had exhausted me. I fell asleep, having deep, tired sobs. My tears were left to dry themselves in streaks, because neither my aunt nor mother was near to wipe them away” (Zitkala-Sa 3). Within this story, the little Indian girl shares her experiences while at a white boarding school. It is very evident that she feels out of place and doesn’t fit into the school. I can relate to this quote and many other pieces of the story

How would you feel if the government seized your land, sold it, expected you to change your lifestyle and then tried to convince you it is for your own benefit? In 1887, the United States Government did exactly that to the Native American tribes with the Dawes Act. The Dawes Act effectively split up Native American land so that non-Native American people could take possession of it. The Native American people had worked the land their entire lives, and now they were faced with moving from their