Relate the humiliating incident that the narrator experienced at school.
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Answer: Bama and Zitkala belonged to marginalized communities. Zitkala was an American Indian woman who was ill-treated by the whites who adopted force and oppression to compel the natives to shed their age-old customs and traditions. The worst indignity she suffered was the cutting of her long hair. Her long and beautiful hair was cut after she was dragged out. She cried and resisted by kicking and scratching wildly as she was tied fast in a chair but still she did not submit. No one came to help her or to console her. Bama, who belonged to a Dalit community was a victim of the caste system. She was upset by the inhuman attitude of the people belonging to the ‘higher’ caste towards the ‘lower’ caste. She had experienced the evils of untouchability when she was studying in the third standard.