Important+Quotations+Explained

Z.S. "Mother, my friend Judewin is going home with the missionaries. She is going to a more beautiful country than ours; The palefaces told her so!." Explanation: She still does not understand that the pale faces are very bad and they are trying to take them away from their home. Her friend is going to go with the palefaces and they are going to make her change her way of living.

The pale faces are threatening to her mother which makes them seem very bad to Z.S. She is feeling very weak and vonerable to them and her hope is that their water isn't taken away from them. Z.S.-"Mother, when I am as tall as my cousin Warca-Ziwin, you shall not have to come for water. I will do it for you." Mother-"If the paleface does not take away from us the river we drink." Z.S.-"Mother, who is this bad paleface?" Mother-"My little daughter, he is a sham,- a sickly sham! The bronzed Dakota is the only real man." Explanation: This conversation between Z.S. and her mother is about the palefaces, who are the white settlers. Her mother is trying to make Z.S. understand that the palefaces aren't as nice as they seem and she knows that the white men are trying to take thier land, freedom and to try to assimilate them into the, "white" culture by taking them away and teaching them in schools. For this fact, her mother has an extreme hate for the white men and what they believe. She also fears that her daughter will fall for their shams to come with them to learn their culture and to have a chance at living in the white world. -Brandan Holmquist

The pale faces are threatening to her mother which makes them seem very bad to Z.S. She is feeling very weak and vonerable to them and her hope is that their water isn't taken away from them.

Z.S. "Mother ask them if little girls get big red apples when they go to the east." Man " yes little girl when you come with us you can have all the red apples you want and you can even ride on the iron horse. Explanation: She is being lured in by this mans persuasive words, she wants to go only because she thinks they will take good care of her and that she will be treated really good.

Z.S. "No I will not submit, I will struggle first. Explanation: She is realizing that her mother was right and that these people are bad. Not only that, but she is realizing that in order for her culture to survive, she has to fight back, even if it is futile to go against the palefaces and their evergrowing culture.