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School Days Of An Indian Girl By Zitkala-Sa

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The text “School Days of an Indian Girl” by Zitkala-Sa (Gertrude Bonnin) is an autobiographical short story written in the early 1900’s in which the author recounts her experience in a government-subsidized boarding school. The purpose of her short story is to show the difficulties of being a Native American in a white, American-dominated school while at the same time showing how white Americans treated the Native American minority in educational situations or environments while her audience targets people with similar experiences as her or arguably even the white Americans due to the text being in the lingua franca, English. In this text, the author has an interesting way of representing her white American counterparts due to her culture’s
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