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Zitkala Sa and Native American Boarding Schools

July 13, 2021 by sonia antaki

Zitkala Sa, or Red Bird, wrote about the trauma of the Native American boarding school experience. She was the model for my fictional character of Red Dove. For more on what that experience was really like here’s an article from National Geographic:

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/a-century-of-trauma-at-boarding-schools-for-native-american-children-in-the-united-states

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