By Patrice Hollrah

From warrior girls to lady deities who regulate the cycle of lifestyles, lady characters in local American literature show a social and religious empowerment that's relatively assorted from the common Pocahontas we're used to seeing in mainstream literature. This paintings argues tribal build of gender family, the place the connection among female and male roles is complementary instead of hierarchical, bills for the life of those empowered lady characters in local American literature. targeting the paintings of 4 of the 20 th century's most famed local American authors, Zitkala-Sa, Leslie Marmon Silko, Louise Erdrich and Sherman Alexie, Hollrah means that you will need to assessment local American literary girl characters in a cultural paradigm that's much less Euro-American and extra suitable to local American tradition.

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With the founding and continued growth of the Native American Church, after 1923, the subject of peyote disappeared from the Indian Rights Association Annual Reports (Hertzberg 275). The outcome of the struggle to ban peyote did not prevent Zitkala-Ša from continuing to work for Indian reform. She chose not to give up, and evidence of this determination in her personality is apparent from a very early point in her career. She displayed it as a young woman in her personal correspondence with Carlos Montezuma.

Such worse than barbarian rudeness embittered me” (American 79). Perhaps the humiliation and embarrassment that she experiences during the competition fuel the resistance growing inside her. As Harold Bloom points out in Native American Women Writers, Zitkala-Ša’s speech “touched on what would be the abiding themes of her other writings: the tension and difficulty of being part Native American, the inequities of the United States government’s policies towards the Dakotas and other Native Americans, and the loss of the traditional way of life” (118).

Zitkala-Ša frequently mentions work in her various publications and its importance whether performed by women or men. In her childhood, her mother is the main female role model, and although the father figure is absent, there are still many male figures in the tribe to act as male role models. Zitkala-Ša describes in her autobiographical essay, “Impressions of an Indian Childhood,” how as a young girl of seven years she learns about the traditional work done by females in the tribe. She observes and models her behavior on her mother’s example, including performing jobs such as drawing water from the Missouri River for household use (American 7), preparing meals and offering hospitality to guests (12, 27–28), learning the art of beadwork (19–20), and caring for the sick and elderly (31).

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