Early Life
One reason Zitkala-Sa was tempted to leave the reservation and attend the boarding school.
What are the red apples or the train?
The main cause that Zitkala-Sa fought for her entire life.
What is Native American rights?
The year that Zitkala-Sa was born.
What is 1876?
Zitkala-Sa was an activist on behalf of women's and Native American rights.
What is True?
The general conflict in ZS1: American Indian Stories.
What is Character vs. Society?
Zitkala-Sa lost her spirit because someone at the boarding school did this.
What is cut her hair/braids?
The name of the 1st Native American opera written by Zitkala-Sa.
What is The Sun Dance?
The year Zitkala-Sa graduated from a Quaker college.
What is 1897?
The boarding school helped to promote Zitkala-Sa's Sioux culture.
What is False?
Direct or Indirect Characterization:" “Now the paleface is angry with us.”
What is Direct Characterization?
Zitkala-Sa's birth name.
What is Gertrude Simmons?
Why Zitkala-Sa left her teaching position.
What is that the school was only teaching the white mainstream culture?
The year Zitkala-Sa wrote the first Native American opera (The Sun Dance.)
What is 1913?
Zitkala-Sa was a Cherokee Indian.
What is False? She was a Sioux Indian
The antagonist in American Indian Stories by Zitkala-Sa.
Who are the European Americans or the people running the boarding school?
As a teen, Zitkala-Sa adopted her new name which also means this.
What is Red Bird?
In addition to teaching, Zitkala-Sa did this during her time at Carlisle Indian Industrial School.
What is publish short stories and autobiographical essays or writing?
The year that Zitkala-Sa founded the National Council of American Indians (citizenship rights, better education, improved health care, and cultural recognition.)
What is 1926?
Zitkala-Sa was eight years old when she was sent to a boarding school in Indiana.
What is True?
Direct or Indirect Characterization: "Judewin has filled your ears with the white man’s lies. Don’t believe a word they say! Their words are sweet, but, my child, their deeds are bitter."
What is Indirect Characterization?
The word that Zitkala-Sa (and others) speak when in trouble at the boarding school.
What is "No?"
Zitkala-Sa founded this organization that fought for Native American rights.
What is The National Council of American Indians?
The year Zitkala-Sa died.
What is 1938?
Zitkala-Sa is the only child in her family to attend boarding school.
What is False?
What can you infer (Indirect Characterization) about this quote, "With fire in my heart, I took the wooden tool that the paleface woman held out to me. I stood upon a step, and, grasping the handle with both hands, I bent in hot rage over the turnips."
What is that Zitkala-Sa is fed up and will no longer accept how she and her culture/people are treated?