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A wigwam of weather-stained canvas stood at the base of some irregularly ascending hills. A footpath wound its way gently down the sloping land till it reached the broad river bot tom; creeping through the long swamp grasses that bent over it on either side, it came out on the edge of the Missouri.
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I wanted a copy of Zitkala-Sa's writings because she was one of the first Native women to write of her experiences in that transitional part of our history. The fact that she bridged between both worlds (European and Indigenous) and went on to help her people is inspiring. I need stories to inspire me now that we are dealing with so much corruption and venal behavior in our country.Product details
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American Indian Stories Classic Reprint ZitkalaSa ZitkalaSa 9780243264056 Books Reviews
I enjoyed this book by Zitkala-Sa. I realize that that this was written from her perspective of the life she was born into and her perceptions were influenced by her life situations. I can only imagine how it must have felt to have been deceived many times over by these people from other countries who came in and displaced them from their homes time and again. It's very informative to get to view these events through the eyes of those who actually lived them.
Not sure what I just read, one longer story and 6 or 7 shorter stories? The flow of this book started off strong but then changed character and story too many times, I was frequently lost or rereading. The end was a total relief because it was also so boring!
Zitkala-Sa was a remarkable woman, especially for her time because she was a woman and an Indian and her writings had to penetrate the white press, and white prejudice. She was acceptionally talented as an orator, a musician and a story teller. She was an Ihanktonwan (Yankton Sioux)) who was born in 1876, the same year as the Battle of the Little Big Horn. Her early years were during the transitional period, before much of the bureaucratic brutality of the U S Indian service took control of the Sioux. She vividly brought to life early childhood memories and her innocence and along with it her search and her relections of all living things to find the Devine in all of life. With this also came extended families who shared their worldly goods. Such a life was not perfect because warfare with other tribes was also a part of life. Their way of life did lack the corruption of the big Corporations, and the poisonous corruption of people who are out for themselves, and just wanted to make it to the top at others expense. These two factors made for a way of life that dispossessed the weak, those born near the bottom of society, and, also, whoever else was there for the taking. I have never liked Christianiy, but not because of Jesus' teachings. Because people can be terrible, who are out for themselves alone, and yet be saved because they accept Jesus personally. People who are good and not Christian, whether or not they have heard of Christianity are damned.(I am getting away from this book, but the American Indians were mainly not Christian for a long time, and Zitkala-Sa was not a Cristian).
The Indians were not perfect, they did fight wars against other tribes, which Zitkala-Sa described in her more mature stories, after her boarding school stories. In one of her childhood stories, she described how she wanted to go to the White run Indian boarding school, probably because she was curious and she wanted to learn to read and write, but the story was not so explicit, but it is why she is known to us today.
Her boarding school memories were vivid also, including her ongoing revolt against extreme regimentation, usually in a personal way. She expressed that the strict, by the order way of life took her away from her vital nature experiences, so important to her. By the time she became a teacher she was rejecting the White people's way of life, as she experienced it, and after just a couple of years at the most, she resigned her postion.
These autobiographical stories are followed by ones about her heritage, and involved the lives of other people. They were fictional. Two stories that impressed me most follow first is a short one 'A Dream of Her Grandfather', which is miraculous and beautiful, and occured in a dream. The night I read it I was so influenced that I had a dream that had a story in it. The other is about other people, and is called 'The Widespread Enigma of the Blue Star Woman'. It has two main characters, Blue Star Woman and Chief High Flier. The story is ironic, but it is also the tale of theft and betrayal of alloment by agents of the U S Bureau of Indian Affairs. One other thing that would be valuable to know about is the Allotment Act of 1887, or the Dawes Act (It is not described by this good book). The book ends with a valuable speech she must have given about the corruprion and complete lack of accountability of the Bureau of Indian Affairs. It includes an investigation, 1912-13, that demonstrates this. The report was ordered, but was put under 'lock and key' of the Civil Service Commission without being presented to Congress, published, or put into the Library of Congress, where students may examine it. She also speaks for Indian citizenship (and the vote), shich was finally passed in 1924. As individual Indians, but also the defeated tribes, Indians were wards of the State (the Federal Government) and had no legal rights that could be enforced..
In a small but critical way, Zitkala-Sa was lucky to have gone to a boarding school when it was just being formed. According to Joseph Bruchac, 'Our Stories Remember' Lieutenant Richard Pratt, the first Superintendent of Boarding Schools may have believed in 'kill the Indian, and save the man', and that Indians should have no say in education, but he also developed a respect for minorities (including Indians). New bureaucrats such as Estelle Reed, who became Superintendent in 1898, believed Indians were racially inferior. At best they should be laborers or servants in the house.
I am very glad I read Zitkala-Sa. Her writings open up big door to real worlds, worthwhile worlds that I believe can benefit us all.
On the negative side, I just found a book of Zitkala-Sa's that has a much more complete collection of her works, the Penguin edition. I intend to buy the Penguin edition, to read some more of her writings. However, anyone who buys and reads this edition has a book to cherish, and it also includes a very worthwhile forward by Susan Rose Dominguez.
This book contains stories about the culture clash between American Indians and American Europeans. The author lived between 1876 and 1938, so all the stories are contemporary to her life. Zitkala-Sa was an American Indian woman, so the stories are all presented from that point of view. And I really hadn't realized how little I knew about the American Indian perspective until I read this. I'd imagined, of course, but this was without the usual European-centric flavor I hadn't ever realized I'd been experiencing.
The first half of the book is an autobiographical account of the author's early life, schooling, and time spent teaching at a school for Indians in the East Coast region. Without any real warning, it then switches track to shorter slice-of-life stories about being Indian, being European, and being caught in the middle.
The last section of the book is about politics, and has quotes and excerpts from various legal documents and laws detailing the way in which Indians are viewed and treated.
All in all it was both interesting and informative and overall a very good read.
There is no active table of contents, and there are a few words that should perhaps be italicized, but instead have _underscores_ on either side of them. Odd, but not really distracting.
The stories included are
Impressions of an Indian Childhood
The School Days of an Indian Girl
An Indian Teacher Among Indians
The Great Spirit
The Soft-Hearted Sioux
The Trial Path
A Warrior's Daughter
A Dream of Her Grandfather
The Widespread Enigma of Blue-Star Woman
America's Indian Problem
In this anthology, Zitkala-Sa provides an autobiography, a series of historical short stories, and an essay on the future of the American Indian.
Like many of her contemporaries, Zitkala-Sa realized that, due to the encroachment of white Americans, the native way of life would soon be gone forever no more hunting and gathering, nomadic tribalism, or wild freedom. Zitkala-Sa recounts growing up in a time when this realization was becoming more and more pronounced, and ends this anthology with a plea for greater political inclusion of American natives.
This book presents a very unique view on American history, but it's also heartbreaking. During the autobiography section, Zitkala-Sa herself seems torn and confused over which lifestyle and culture to follow. And, of course, we know that her pleas for political inclusion and just treatment of the natives never came to fruition.
I wanted a copy of Zitkala-Sa's writings because she was one of the first Native women to write of her experiences in that transitional part of our history. The fact that she bridged between both worlds (European and Indigenous) and went on to help her people is inspiring. I need stories to inspire me now that we are dealing with so much corruption and venal behavior in our country.
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