Incurring+My+Mother's+Displeasure

Summary-

In this chapter Zitkala-Sa has a secret overview with one of the best medicine men and when she left that wigwam she said she carried a tiny bunch of magic roots which assured her of friends wherever she should go but then she lost a buckskin bag with all of her good luck. A while later she ventured a college career against her mothers will even though she wrote to her mother for an approval. Zitkala-Sa knows that her mother is not supporting her and in her dormitory and she would sometimes cry and wish that she had gone West in the first place. She finally made a friend and entered an oratical contest that she won. But as she was waiting to hear the results of the contest a white flag was thrown out with a drawing of an Indian girl on it and in bold black letters it said "squaw". Soon after the results were announced she left the crowd as soon as possible. The rest of the night she sat in her room and thought about everything. She said the little taste of victory did not satisfy the hunger in her heart and in her mind she saw her mother far away on the Western plains holding a charge against her.

Annalysis

Zitkala Sa moved to the East because the pale faces told her some things that she thought would be cool when she was younger. But now that she is older she is realizing that she misses being in the West and that the East isn't as good as she thought it was going to be because her mother isn't supporting her anymore no matter how well she does where she is now and she is worried that her mother is going to hold it against her for the rest of her life.