American Indian Stories | 
so-soSolid 3.5 read
Zitkála-Sá writes with such poignant honesty, poetically highlighting her heritage. It's both a memoir and yet poetry to read.
Reading her work has me interested in learning more about her, her body of writing, and her position within and out of her tribe and in general more indigenous authors.
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pickThis retrospection stopped me in my tracks. Their are no surprises in her conclusions. But the eloquence and perspective are astounding. What a brilliant woman! What a sudden and profound change of heart!
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pickFirst third was her autobiography. She wrote so exquisitely about her life on a Sioux reservation and her life in an Eastern school.
Second third were essays that Zitkala-Sa wrote to Congress on the deplorable conditions of the American people. She continued her white education to fight the white man. Admirable!! Heroic!!
Stories of the people were included in the finale. They reminded me of Kipling's Just So Stories+Jack Tales of Appalachia
The old legends of America belong quite as much to the blue-eyed little patriot as to the black-haired aborigine.
My first finished read for #widehorizonsreadathon @Emilymdxn
It seems the more I read to broaden my horizons, the world becomes a little bit smaller. In this book, I love how the author stresses the legends that make America. It is for all Americans, not just the indigenous.
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"I made no friends among the race of people I loathed. Like a slender tree, I had been uprooted from my mother, nature, and God. I was shorn of my branches, which had waved in sympathy and love for home and friends. The natural coat of bark which had protected my oversensitive nature was scraped off to the very quick.
It has such excellent writing. I just can't believe I have not known about this woman.
Though an illness left me unable to continue my college course, my pride kept me from returning to my mother. Had she known of my worn condition, she would have said the white man's papers were not worth the freedom and health I had lost by them. Such a rebuke from my mother would have been unbearable, and as I felt then it would be far too true to be comfortable.
Why haven't I heard of this book?
pickThank ou @penguinrandomhouse for American Indian Stories by Zitkála-Šá, which I read in honor of November is National Native American Heritage Month. I didn't know about this heritage month, until I looked it up a few months ago. I have so many things to say about this little book. https://onthebl.org/2019/11/30/american-indian-stories-by-zitkala-sa
"... for now I was only one of many little animals driven by a herder."
It's National Native American Heritage Day
Watching the sunset and sipping hot tea and reading a good book on the roof of my apartment 💕
Time for some reading in bed! My new apartment in Berkeley is almost completely set up, and I've said goodbye to my family until Christmas. For the moment the peace and quiet (apart from the loudness of a city on a Friday night) is so restorative. 💕 Even though this book is breaking my heart and I've just said goodbye to my family. 💔
We are at the end of day 12 of traveling. We've made it from North Carolina to California, and on Wednesday we'll reach Berkeley and start getting me settled in my apartment (while I can still use our rented minivan for buying furniture!). I LOVE traveling, but this evening I'm very excited to drink some herbal mint tea and read a book (bought in Santa Fe) and relax. Not even eating a real dinner because I'm DONE! 😂
pickDay 9 of #RiotGrams Native and Indigenous reads
Zitkala-Sa, also known as Gertrude Simmons Bonnin, was born on the Yankton Sioux reservation in South Dakota in 1876. She was a lifelong writer and activist.
I have a lot of work do to diversify my reading material. Luckily I have #Litsy and #booktober to thank for my recent additions to my #diversereads list. 😃👍📚📚
Required reads and DQ on my lunch break. I only have to read a few sections of this book but I'd love to revisit it soon.
