HUMAN 1A Lecture 19: Zitkala-Sa’s Art of Cultural Crossings
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Neither a wild indian nor a tame one zitkala-sa"s art of cultural crossings. Biographical reading: do zitkala-sa"s pieces invite a biographical reading? attended quaker boarding school in wabash, indiana studied at earlham college and won oratorical contest taught at carlisle indian school in pennsylvania. Kill the indian, and save the man. attempt to destroy indian culture by taking children out of reservations forced relocation in some cases. Thus my mother discouraged my curiosity about the lands beyond our eastern horizon; for it was not yet ambition for letters that was stirring in me. (14) The legends starts with mother preparing breakfast reference to uncle. I heard many strange experiences relayed by visitors invites people to come to her home visitors tell legends tattoos they are signs, secret signs i dare not tell to you. (5: refusal to interpret something. Musician after finishing undergraduate work, she studied at new england conservatory of music: wrote opera later in life.
