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"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."--
Request Code : ZLIBIO2716547
Categories:
Year:
2019
Edition:
Modern library trade paperback edition
Publisher:
Random House Publishing Group;The Modern Library
Language:
English
Pages:
160 pages
ISBN 10:
1984854216
ISBN 13:
9781984854421
ISBN:
9781984854216,9781984854421,1984854216
Series:
Modern Library Torchbearers

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