Section 1
Zitkala-Ĺ a: Indian Girlhood and Education
How do Zitkala-Ĺ a's encounters with white society compare to those of Sarah Winnemucca in the 1840 s (see pp. 225-26)?
Compare the response of the author to the noise and regimentation of her school to the experiences of European immigrants arriving into bustling, industrial American cities.
One scholar has characterized the assimilationist education offered by wellmeaning white "friends of the Indian" as a kind of "tender violence." ${ }^{42}$ Given Zitkala-Ĺ a's account, what do you think of this term?