A review by linda_1410
American Indian Stories by Zitkála-Šá

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4.0

This a collection of Zitkála-Šá's memoirs, essays and short stories. She relates her early life living among her people, the Dakota, being forcefully taken from them to be indoctrinated by white Christians, and her eventual reunion with her people. The stories and essays address the various trials and issues that befell the Native Americans as white settlers expanded westward and squeeze them off their own land. They're familiar tales, sadly, including how the American government time and time again broke their treaties and how the Native Americans were left to starve on the reservations, as well as how being raised among a different culture, being made to turn against your own beliefs, impacted her and her people. 

This is short, under four hours, but impactful.