Zitkala-Sa
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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.
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Zitkala-Ša with her violin in 1898
Zitkala-Ša, 1898, by Joseph Keiley
Zitkala-Ša, c. 1898, by Gertrude Käsebier
Zitkála-Šá, by Gertrude Käsebier, 1898
Contemporary 1913 newspaper article in the El Paso Herald about The Sun Dance Opera, referring to the then-37-year-old Zitkala-Ša as "girl"
Zitkala-Sa, c. 1921
In 2024 Zitkala-Ša was featured in the American Women quarter seriesWriters from United States 6
About this person
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.
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