| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 134 pages) |
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"A Modern Library Trade Paperback Original." |
| Summary |
"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."-- Provided by publisher. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Local Note |
EBSCOhost History Reference Center |
| Subject |
Zitkala-̈Sa, 1876-1938.
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Zitkala-̈Sa, 1876-1938. (OCoLC)fst00151837
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Yankton women -- Biography.
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Yankton Indians -- Social conditions.
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Yankton Indians -- Government relations.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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Yankton Indians -- Government relations.
(OCoLC)fst01182423
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Yankton women. (OCoLC)fst01182428
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| Genre/Form |
Autobiographies. (OCoLC)fst01919894
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Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
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Biographies.
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Autobiographies.
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| Added Author |
Long Soldier, Layli, writer of introduction.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Zitkala-̈Sa, 1876-1938. American Indian stories. New York : Modern Library, [2019] 9781984854216 (DLC) 2019004705 (OCoLC)1080274096 |
| ISBN |
9781984854421 (electronic book) |
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1984854429 (electronic book) |
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9781984854216 |
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1984854216 |
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