Zitkala-Sa wrestled with the conflicting i nfluences of American Indian and white culture throughout her life. Raised on a Sioux reservation\, she was educated at boarding schools that enforc ed assimilation and was witness to major events in white-Indian relations in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Tapping her troubled personal history\, Zitkala-Sa created stories that illuminate the tragedy and complexity of the American Indian experience. In evocative prose laced with political sa vvy\, she forces new thinking about the perceptions\, assumptions\, and cu stoms of both Sioux and white cultures and raises issues of assimilation\, identity\, and race relations that remain compelling today. \;(Provid ed by the publisher)
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