#ihanktonwan

[britthill]

Our existence is the ultimate Indigenous resistance 👊🏽

[sodakpb]

Portrait of Zitkala-Sa by Gertrude Kasebier, about 1898. Zitkala-Sa, aka Gertrude Simmons Bonnin (1876-1938), exposed the hardships faced by students at Native American boarding schools by writing about her own experiences as a student and as a teacher. Zitkala-Sa also published a book of tribal folklore called Old Indian Legends and composed “The Sun Dance Opera” with composer William F. Hanson. In 1930, Zitkala-Sa founded the National Council of American Indians, the first trans-tribal Native American organization to lobby the government for citizenship and civil right for American Indians. She was president of the organization until her death. Zitkala-Sa was born Feb. 22, 1876.

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