Response to Zitkala Sa part 1

In part one of Zitkala Sa's autobiography the feeling of loss that is portrayed is near identical to the one in Helen Hunt Jackson's a century of dishonor. The dialogue at the end of the first story between Sa and her mother is most effective at showing the reader this feeling, and just like in the first reading it deals with the death of the Indian people as a direct result of the advances of the "paleface". The Setting of the passages is near the same. They both take place in the Missouri river valley, but the passages take place at different times. They are however around the same time period.