Seasons of Rita: Biography of a Sauk Woman

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Seasons of Rita is the story of the cultural clash between American and Indian cultue within the life of one person, Rita, and the price of that conflict to her for my part and to her people, the Sauk. After Indian School and an exploitative marriage to a “White” man she returned to live within the Sauk community and was once progressively reincorporated into the tribal religion and was once one of the vital last to know the old ways. Rita was once born in a traditional Sauk village, however the authorities took her as a child to an Indian boarding school. She was once the first generation to experience forced assimilation within the English language and Christian missionary teaching. After years within the school her life and thought were a mix of “White” and “Indian” ways. She spent the remainder of her life resolving those conflicts. That is her story.

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