arry a Sioux. His mother tells him that he needs to ensure he builds up a great supply of buffalo meat and deerskins before he marries. His father tells him that at his age to become a great warrior is the greatest satisfaction and means of finding external belonging with the tribe, “Ho, my son, I have been counting in my heart the bravest warriors of our people. There is not one of them who won his title in his sixteenth winter. My son, it is a great thing for some brave of sixteen winters to do” (Zitkala-Sa 1).
Episode II explains the narrator’s ten years of education at the hands of white missionaries. He is taken from his people, educated in the ways of the white man and the Christian God, and then sent back to his people filled with the hope of delivering the message of the white man’s Bible. Dressed in a foreign manner, speaking the language of the white man, and delivering the message of Christianity eventually alienates the narrator from his tribe, even though his mother and father are happy to see him. Still, when the narrator is threatened by the medicine man’s disapproval and sends him away, his father tries to tell
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