Ebook: American Indian Stories
Author: Long Soldier Layli, Zitkala-S̈a
- Tags: Yankton Indians--Government relations, Yankton Indians--Social conditions, Yankton women, Biographies, Biography, Autobiographies, Zitkala-S̈a -- 1876-1938, Yankton women -- Biography, Yankton Indians -- Social conditions, Yankton Indians -- Government relations
- Series: Modern Library Torchbearers
- Year: 2019
- Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
- City: New York
- Edition: Modern library trade paperback edition
- Language: English
- epub
"Bright and carefree, Zitkála-Sá grows up on the Yankton Sioux reservation in South Dakota with her mother until Quaker missionaries arrive, offering a free education to all Sioux children. The catch: the children must leave their parents behind and travel to Indiana. Curious about the world beyond the reservation, Zitkála-Sá begs her mother to let her go--and her mother, aware of the advantage that an education offers, reluctantly agrees. But the missionary school is not the adventure that Zitkála-Sá expected: the school is a strict one, her long hair is cut, and only English is spoken. She encounters racism and ridicule. Slowly, she adapts to her environment--excelling at her studies, winning prizes for essay-writing and oration. Vivid and poignant, this memoir is the story of an activist in the making, a woman whose extraordinary career partially inspired the events of Killers of the Flower Moon."--
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