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A 3 page discussion of the life and literary contributions of this nineteenth and early twentieth century Native American woman. A noted lecturer and writer, Zitkala would take many aspects of the white world to task. Her most resented target, however, was Christianity itself. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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Zitkala Sa, the Sioux name which translates to mean "Red Bird" was born in 1876 to the Yankton Sioux people. Also known by the anglo name
of Gertrude Bonnin, Zitkala would become one of the most progressive Native American women of her time. She would become a noted teacher, a writer, and a violinist.
Her literature, however, would bring Zitkala the most notice. Not only did she translate numerous Sioux legends into the ever more inescapable language of English as a means of
preserving the legends into perpetuity, she also recorded her life experiences. In the autobiographical "The School Days of an Indian Girl" Zitkala illuminates some of the more forceful influences
of her early life. Many of these influences, particularly the tendency of the white culture within which she was entrapped to force-feed the ideologies of Christianity, were more of
a more negative impact to the life of this young girl than they were a positive impact. As was the case for
many Native American children during the years of our history in which our government was intent on assimilating Native Americans into mainstream non-Native culture, Zitkala was forced to leave her
home and family at the young age of twelve. She was sent to a Quaker missionary school for Indians in Wabash Indiana. Her writings recount many of the
atrocities reflected by the schools preoccupation with converting the young "savages" with whom they were charged from their pagan ways to Christianity.
Every effort was made by this school to remove all traces of "Indianness" from their young students. Zitkala and her classmates were punished for speaking their own language
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