Summary

Catalog 5: Emancipation & Independence, consists of Sections XVI through XVIII. Section XVI describes different girls and women, "Good Road Girl," "Fierce Woman," and others. A Nebraska General holds a baby girl, Zintkala Nuni, who he found on the battlefield of Wounded Knee. The descriptions of girls continue, and each one is only a line or two long. Some of the girls are doing mundane tasks, like washing clothes, going to church, or writing a letter, while others are attending a "Literary and Industrial Training School for Negro Girls," being "pelted by a crowd," or participating in the first day of voluntary school integration (87). Section XVII follows a similar structure, but instead of describing various girls, it describes "Moorish" woman, as well as other Muslim and/or African women. Section XVIII, "The Sweet Flypaper of Life Virgin on the Rocks Determining True North in the...