Question

what was zitkala sa's idea regarding short shingled hair​

Answer 1

Zitkala-Sa's idea of short shingled hair meant that she would lose her identity and her culture.

• Zitkala Sa's mother taught her that shingled hair was worn by mourners when someone close to them died. Short hair is seen as cowardly and defines an unskilled warrior caught in war. To her, her hair meant a close connection to her culture that was going to be taken away.
• Her hair as the last piece of her culture that she could hold on to but it was not desirable in the eyes of the colonisers.
• To avoid getting her hair cut, she decided to struggle instead of just giving in. She escaped quietly to the upstairs room and entered a dim room. She began to hide under a bed in the hopes that they would not find her.
• The idea of cutting hair was to showcase the discrimination faced by the natives at the hands of the western world. The students were made to wear western dresses and cut their hair so that they look as American as possible.

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Answer 2

Answer:

Regarding short, shingled hair Zitkala's Idea was that short hair was worn by mourners and shingled hair was wor by cowards.