Representation of the Schooling of Native Children Francis La Flesche’s The Middle Five and Zitkala-Sa’s American Indian Stories both offer a representation of the schooling of Native children by White educators. Both are fictionalized narratives based on the authors’ own childhood memories. However, these representations also differ in important aspects, such as tone, narrative, and […]
How can her educational excellence be said to make her an example of the system even as she criticizes the system and what it’s done to her indigenous values and views?
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 […]