Zitkala-Sa Double Identity Analysis

the people in her tribe when she came back to them. Devens, C argues that, zitkala-Sa admitted that when she retuned from the missionary school she felt that she was out of her place at her tribe because the colonizers’ culture had caught her (237). She finds herself more isolated from the members of her native culture. she convinces, Well, you can guess how queer I felt—away from my own people— homeless—penniless—and even without a name!().
It is apparent that the boarding school and the colonizers policies there led to the fragmentation and hybridization in Zitkala-Sa’s real identity. She loss between the two cultures and as a result she has a double visions or a double consciousness which identifies In Tyson’s words as , “a consciousness