Publication

2010-10-27 - CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Word Count

21,000 words, Guess

Page Count

84 pages

Physical Format

Paperback

Identifiers

  • Open LibraryOL31981469M
  • ISBN-139781456311773
  • ISBN-101456311778

Description

"Bright and carefree, Zitka la-Sa 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, Zitka la-Sa 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 Zitka la-Sa 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." --

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