Kill the Indian and save the man!

Zitkala Sa, as known as Gertrude Simmons Bonnin was a mixed Native American borned on the Yankton Sioux Reservation in 1876. At just an early age Zitkala decided to learn the white man's ways and thus began schooling in a Quaker school in Indiana. While becoming "civilized" she faced prejudices which was common during the "transitional" period. Though all of this she becomes a writer, musician, teacher and later a political activist for Indian rights. In Impressions of an Indian Childhood she tells of her life prior and going to school, her mother, and the transition to school in a foreign world.