#zitkala-sa

[r3albatman]

Zitkála-Šá "Red Bird": a Yankton Dakota writer, editor, translator, musician, educator, and political activist.

(February 22, 1876 - January 26, 1938)

[gregorygalloway]

Zitkala-Ša (22 February 1876 – 26 January 1938)

[no-where-new-hero]

Zitkala-Ša (Gertrude Simmons Bonnin), biracial Sioux-German writer, violinist, and activist, photographed by Gertrude Käsebier, 1898

[bestbookcover]

round 1, poll 307

click for better quality & to see the full image. sometimes they get cut off weirdly!

which cover do you like best?

Maudit soit le printemps by Céline Chevet

American Indian Stories by Zitkala-Sa

Voting ended onJan 20

remember, you're voting for the cover, not the author or the book!

[doodleswiki]

5 years ago (Feb 22nd, 2021) - Zitkala-Sa’s 145th Birthday

Doodle made by Chris Pappan

This doodle was shown in the United States

[diioonysus]

zitkala-sa or red bird (1876-1938) was was a yankton dakota writer, editor, translator, musician, educator, and political activist. her later books were among the first works to bring traditional native american stories to a widespread white english-speaking readership. she was co-founder of the national coouncil of american indians in 1926, which was established to lobby for native people's right to united states citizenship and other civil rights they had long been denied. when she was a child, she was taken to white's indiana manual labor Institute, a quaker missionary boarding school in wabash, indiana. this training school was founded by josiah white for the education of "poor children, white, colored, and indian to help them advance in society.” she wrote about this in one of her books describing the misery of having her hertiage stripped from her and being forced to cut her hair.

[ometochtli2rabbit]

august 24: one everyone should read: American Indian Stories, Legends, and Other Writings by Zitkala-Sa (Gertrude Simmons Bonnin). It is still relevant to what is going on today in Native Communities all over the world and right here even though it is over 100 years since most of it was written....

[higherentity]