Zitkala Sa's impressions of an indian childhood

After carefully reading this selection, I feel that sa's trying to say that all these wonderful experiences she had will now be tarnished as her culture gets snatched away from her. This story is a heartbreaking truth that needed to be exposed. Since this was written such a long time ago, i'm sure it was shocking. I think that Zikala might have written it with these intentions in mind as well.

As the white men began trying to fase out the Native American culture, sa might have felt the need to tell everyone about it. Her detailed telling makes me sympathesize with the Native American condition and I feel as though that that might have been a part of it's purpose. Regardless of her ethnic backround, the story still tells like an autobiography that is attempting to give us a detailed glimpse into her life.

This story may very well have put a question mark in people's heads about the attempted assimilation plan America had for its natives. Its a disturbing account that disgust me at times. By her writing this story she may be trying to tell white people about what what the culture is about. Maybe shes showing them her culture and then posing the question: " Now that you now its beauty, do you still want to commit genocide? Do you still want to pretend like my culture never existed? Do you still want to fase it out and assimilate us?"