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Zitkala Sa , 1876-1938

Sioux
Dakota

Zitkala Sa was born at the Yankton Reservation in South Dakota where she was raised as a tradtional Sioux. Sa attended a Quaker missionary school in Indiana, White's Manual Labor Institute. She later attended Earlham College, 1895-1897, also in Indiana, then taught at Carlisle Indian Training School. In 1916 Zitkala was elected secretary-treasurer of the Society of American Indian, also editing their journal, American Indian Magazine. In 1921 she founded her own political organization, the National Council of American Indians.

 

Online resources by or about Zitkala Sa:

Gertrude Bonnin, Zitkala Sha
Author: Paula Giese
Type: authorbio
Description: Biography of Zitkala Sa prepared by Paula Giese.
URL: http://www.kstrom.net/isk/stories/authors/bonnin.html
Gertrude Simmons Bonnin
Author: Melessa Renee Henderson
Type: authorbio
Description: This page about Bonnin (Zitkala Sa/Zitkala Sha) is part of a series from Voices from the Gaps: Women Writers of Color produced by the Department of English and Programs in American Studies at the University of Minnesota. Included is an in-depth biography, selected bibliography and related links.
URL: http://voices.cla.umn.edu/vg/Bios/entries/bonnin_gertrude_simmons_zitkalasa.html
People and Events: Zitkala-Sa (Gertrude Simmons Bonnin)
Author: PBS Online
Type: authorbio
Description: Part of a web site for America 1900, a PBS video that "presents a comprehensive picture of what life was like in the United States at the turn of the century". Zitkala-Sa is profiled on this page because she performed at the Paris Exposition in 1900.
URL: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/1900/peopleevents/pande35.html
Zitkala-Sa: A Biography
Author: Roseanne Hoefel
Type: authorbio
Description: This biographical essay about Zitkala-Sa is part of Glynis Carr's Online Archive of Nineteenth-Century U.S. Women's Writings. Includes a photo of Zitkala-Sa and suggestions for further reading.
URL: http://www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/gcarr/19cUSWW/ZS/rh.html

Books by Zitkala Sa:

Zitkala Sa. American Indian stories
Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 1921.
Genre: Biography
Description: 195 p. ; 21 cm.
Zitkala-Sa, 1876-1938. Yankton Indians--Biography. Indians of North America--Social conditions
ISBN: 0803299028 (pbk.)
Zitkala Sa. Old Indian legends
University of Nebraska Press : 1985.
Genre: Folklore
Description: 165 p., (14) leaves of plates : ill. ; 21 cm.
Old Indian legends / retold by Zitkala-Sa ; with illustrations by Angel De Cora. Foreword by Agnes M. Picotte. Dakota Indians--Legends. Indians of North America--Folklore.
ISBN: Lincoln
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