# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/zitkala-sa
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:38:07.875Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/zitkala-sa"
name: "Zitkala-Sa"
slug: "zitkala-sa"
description: "Zitkala-Ša, also Zitkála-Šá, was a Yankton Dakota writer, editor, translator, musician, educator, and political activist. She was also known by her anglicized and married name, Gertrude Simmons Bonnin. She wrote several works chronicling her struggles with cultural identity, and the pull between the majority culture in which she was educated, and the Dakota culture into which she was born and raised. Her later books were among the first works to bring traditional Native American stories to a widespread white English-speaking readership."
tagline: "Yankton Dakota writer (1876-1938)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Zitkala-Sa.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1876-02-22"
deathDate: "1938-01-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           20.734496
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump