American Indian Stories
Publisher: Modern Library
Published: May 21, 2019
Language: eng
Format: paperback
Number of pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9781984854216
Description: "Bright and carefree, Zitka la-Sa  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, Zitka la-Sa  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 Zitka la-Sa  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." --
Notes: Source title: American Indian Stories (Modern Library Torchbearers)