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Refusing easy markers of resistance
12022-12-11T18:34:10-08:00Kai Chased7cab5968a3a916efd1a14a48cc4832d5d5514ae416962plain2022-12-11T18:38:55-08:00Kai Chased7cab5968a3a916efd1a14a48cc4832d5d5514aeThe tale of her school days ends as she reaches adulthood, but her contradictory space of struggle does not rest. As the child grows up, they carry with them the lessons and battles even as they choose how to engage with them. Here, the reader cannot presume that the young woman is easily marked as simply successfully resistant. Instead, Bonnin suggests that the continued fight over terrain, sovereignty, and assimilation wages on without offering an easy image of "winning" or losing. She no longer laughs while alone, the "little tast of victory did not satisfy a hunger" and she thinks again of her far-away mother who she is at odds with (Bonnin 80). Throughout and into the end of this tale, Bonnin refuses to give easy answers and allows her character to be richly complicated as one who is both fueled by anger and liveliness and deeply troubled by her conflicted positions.
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1media/americanindianst1921zitk_0090_thumb.jpeg2022-12-11T16:51:29-08:00Kai Chased7cab5968a3a916efd1a14a48cc4832d5d5514aeSchool Days (79-80)1media/americanindianst1921zitk_0090.jpegplain2022-12-11T16:51:29-08:00Kai Chased7cab5968a3a916efd1a14a48cc4832d5d5514ae