How do you explain these paradoxes and contradictions? How do Zitkala-Sa’s writings show her caught between two different worlds with different values? How do her writings show her both harmed by the American Indian boarding school system and succeeding in it?
Read “The School Days of an Indian Girl,” “An Indian Teacher Among Indians” and “The Great Spirit” in the book American Indian Stories by Zitkala-Sa In these stories, Zitkala-Sa describes contradictory feelings about the education system for American Indian tribal members. She feels differently about the system at different times, but the development of her […]