Zitkala Sa Summary

In fact, one of the premier Native American female to write traditional stories originated from oral native legend was Zitkala-Sa, whose actual name was Gertrude Simmons. She is a typical example of a girl from a white father and an Indian mother, whose publish was mainly focused on the white oppression of Native Americans. Her one of the most prominent books called “Old Indian Legends” was written as the literary counterpart of the spoken narrators of her Sioux tribe. Actually, these legends comprise different stories of Iktomi, the Dakota Trickster, and are commonly narrated as amusement preferably than as holy tales. Moreover, Zitkala-Sa’s stories not only showing the personage Sioux from the inside, but also her stories disclose the violence that white education imposes on Native American children, in addition to the feelings of estrangement that this schooling had provoked in her. In this essay, comprehensive life story of the extraordinary talented Native American …show more content…
After all the opposition, corruption, and disappointment, Zitkala-Sa gradually lost her faith in the Great Spirit. It can be clearly seen from her sayings that the Great Spirit does not care if we live or die. In her work “Why I am Pagan” she disputes a respectful and religious Christian to see the beauty of Indian beliefs, their passion to cognize the beauty of nature, love to the universe, and acceptance of every person as being irreplaceable part of God’s creature. Furthermore, Zitkala-Sa strongly debates that God did not appeal the white man to ruin the great Indian culture, destroy their motherlands, or punish Native American children for speaking in their mother tongue. She uses all her efforts to convince people from the idea of believing that the Native American traditions were sinful and