Resisting colonial education: Zitkala-Sa and Native Feminist archival refusal

Abstract

This paper examines resistance through a Native Feminist lens, employing the boarding school memoirs of Zitkala-Sa. Within a “story” of appropriation in methodology, it considers protest and parody, and presents archival refusal as modes of resistance to colonial education.

Keywords:

• Native Feminisms
• archive
• boarding schools
• resistance
• Zitkala-Sa