Swallowing My Sobs

Reading about Zitkala-sa, also known as Red Bird, I am struck by her account about how they "misunderstood the cause of [her] tears in Gertrude Simmons Bonnin's "The School Days of an Indian Girl." They so often think they understand the cause of the tears and so easily brush them away. "It was very little I could swallow besides my sobs," said the young girl. --FrenchIndian