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Full Title - American Indian Stories

Author - Zitkala - Sa

Type Of Work - Part biographical work

Genre - Historical

Language - English

Time and Place Written - 1880's-1890's; South Dakota, Yankton Indian Reservation

Date of First Publication - 1921

Publisher - University of Nebraska Press

Narrator - First person

Climax – The climax of American Indian stories is when Zitkala – Sa mashes the turnips in the bowl.

Protagonists – Zitkala Sa and Taté Iyòhiwin her mother.

Antagonists – The white missionaries, white society

Setting (time) – 1880’s-1890’s

Setting (place) – South Dakota, Yankton Indian Reservation

Point of View – The story is told from the first person, Zitkala-Sa uses I in the story

Falling Action – Zitkala-Sa returns to her home and her mother while she is working to find more Native Amaerican children for the school she is working at.

Tense – Past

Foreshadowing – Zitkala-Sa being taken away from her home by the white missionaries to go to school leads to her taking children from their parents back East. Tone – Sad, depressed, excited

Themes – Assimilating the Native Americans into American society, Order and restriction in American