Genocide, extermination or cultural mongrelisation of myriad aboriginal races and the consequent growth of resistance, ever since the amplification of the Colonial rule, have attracted grea t scholastic attention with the increasing popularity of the term “Fourth World ” and the allied discourse. The relentless eradication of the native races in America has reduced the substantial tribal population from over 8 million people to a paltry millio n. Crushed under the enormous burden of poverty and the emotional pain of being uprooted and re -rooted, those tribes who escaped the onslaught of disease and war, have vented their anger, sometimes through futile rebellions and sometimes through a more pot ent vindication of their culture, in their art and literature. Zitkala -Sa, an early twentieth -century American Indian writer, critic and activist, was a victim of the European - American missionaries, as she enrolled at a boarding school for the American Ind ian children. She compiled her personal experiences of encountering the coloni sers and seriali sed them in the Atlantic. This paper focuses on the growth of resistance/consciousness among the American Indian races through a reading of one of their most over t voices, Zitkala -Sa, who registers her protest by upholding the superiority of her native culture against the atrocities in an intensely racist American society