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Author | : Gina Capaldi |
Publisher | : Carolrhoda Books ® |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 2013-11-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1467738131 |
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"I remember the day I lost my spirit." So begins the story of Gertrude Simmons, also known as Zitkala-Ša, which means Red Bird. Born in 1876 on the Yankton Sioux reservation in South Dakota, Zitkala-Ša willingly left her home at age eight to go to a boarding school in Indiana. But she soon found herself caught between two worlds—white and Native American. At school she missed her mother and her traditional life, but Zitkala-Ša found joy in music classes. "My wounded spirit soared like a bird as I practiced the piano and violin," she wrote. Her talent grew, and when she graduated, she became a music teacher, composer, and performer. Zitkala-Ša found she could also "sing" to help her people by writing stories and giving speeches. As an adult, she worked as an activist for Native American rights, seeking to build a bridge between cultures. The coauthors tell Zitkala-Ša’s life by weaving together pieces from her own stories. The artist's acrylic illustrations and collages of photos and primary source documents round out the vivid portrait of Zitkala-Ša, a frightened child whose spirit "would rise again, stronger and wiser for the wounds it had suffered."
Author | : Zitkala-Sa |
Publisher | : Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | : 98 |
Release | : 2012-03-15 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 0486141802 |
Download American Indian Stories Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A testimony to the power of one woman's spirit, this moving collection of autobiographical tales and family stories portrays a Native American teacher's struggle between her heritage and American society.
Author | : Zitkala-Sa |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 2003-02-25 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9780142437094 |
Download American Indian Stories, Legends, and Other Writings Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A thought-provoking collection of searing prose from a Sioux woman that covers race, identity, assimilation, and perceptions of Native American culture Zitkala-Sa wrestled with the conflicting influences of American Indian and white culture throughout her life. Raised on a Sioux reservation, she was educated at boarding schools that enforced assimilation and was witness to major events in white-Indian relations in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Tapping her troubled personal history, Zitkala-Sa created stories that illuminate the tragedy and complexity of the American Indian experience. In evocative prose laced with political savvy, she forces new thinking about the perceptions, assumptions, and customs of both Sioux and white cultures and raises issues of assimilation, identity, and race relations that remain compelling today.
Author | : Zitkala-Sa |
Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 2005-06-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780803299191 |
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Zitkala-?a (Red Bird) (1876?1938), also known as Gertrude Simmons Bonnin, was one of the best-known and most influential Native Americans of the twentieth century. Born on the Yankton Sioux Reservation, she remained true to her indigenous heritage as a student at the Boston Conservatory and a teacher at the Carlisle Indian School, as an activist in turn attacking the Carlisle School, as an artist celebrating Native stories and myths, and as an active member of the Society of American Indians in Washington DC. All these currents of Zitkala-?a?s rich life come together in this book, which presents her previously unpublished stories, rare poems, and the libretto ofThe Sun Dance Opera.
Author | : Zitkala-Sa |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 58 |
Release | : 2015-12-03 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781502872975 |
Download Old Indian Legends Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
"[...]hurry off! Stop! halt!" urged one of the singers. "Stop! stay! Show us what is in your blanket!" cried out other voices. "My friends, I must not spoil your dance. Oh, you would not care to see if you only knew what is in my blanket. Sing on! dance on! I must not show you what I carry on my back," answered Iktomi, nudging his own sides with his elbows. This reply broke up the ring entirely. Now all the ducks crowded about Iktomi. "We must see what you carry! We must know what is in your blanket!" they shouted in both his ears. Some even brushed their wings against the mysterious bundle. Nudging himself again, wily Iktomi said, "My friends, 't is only a pack of songs I carry in my blanket." "Oh, then let us hear your songs!" cried the curious ducks. At length Iktomi consented to sing his songs. With delight all the ducks flapped their wings and cried together, "Hoye! hoye!" Iktomi, with great care, laid down his bundle on the ground. "I will build first a round straw house, for I never sing my songs in the open air," said he. Quickly he bent green willow sticks, planting both ends of each pole into[...]".
Author | : Zitkala-Sa |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 48 |
Release | : 2008-10 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781409910312 |
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Gertrude Simmons Bonnin (1876-1938), better known by her pen name, Zitkala-Sa, was a Native American writer, editor, musician, teacher and political activist. She was born and raised on the Yankton Sioux Reservation in South Dakota by her mother. Zitkala-Sa lived a traditional lifestyle until the age of eight when she left her reservation to attend Whites Manual Labor Institute, a Quaker mission school in Indiana. She went on to study for a time at Earlham College in Indiana and the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston. A considerable talent, Bonnin co-composed the first American Indian grand opera, The Sun Dance in 1913. After working as a teacher at Carlisle Indian Industrial School, she began publishing short stories and autobiographical vignettes. Her autobiographical writings were serialized in Atlantic Monthly and, later, published in a collection called American Indian Stories in 1921. Her first book, Old Indian Legends (1901), is a collection of folktales that she gathered during her visits home to the Yankton Reservation. Her other works include Stories of Iktomi and Other Legends of the Dakotas (1901) and Oklahoma s Poor Rich Indians (1924).
Author | : Doreen Rappaport |
Publisher | : StarWalk Kids Media |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2013-11-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1623344832 |
Download The Flight of Red Bird Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Taken from her family on the Yankton Sioux Reservation at the age of eight and sent to a school far from home, Gertrude is forced to become "civilized"--to give up her moccasins, her long hair, and her language, and to renounce her Sioux heritage. As an adult, she renames herself Zitkala-¬Sa, which means "Red Bird," and devotes her life to fighting for justice for Native Americans. Her powerful and memorable story, told in her own words from letters and diaries, will inspire anyone who has ever dreamed of making a difference.
Author | : Zitkala-S̈a |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 48 |
Release | : 1924 |
Genre | : Five Civilized Tribes |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Zitkala-S̈a |
Publisher | : South Dakota State Historical Society |
Total Pages | : 48 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
Download Dance in a Buffalo Skull Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A prowling wildcat finds a surprise in an old dried-up buffalo skull. A group of mice are dancing the night away and not paying attention to the dangers around them. Does the wildcat spell doom for the mice, or will they escape to safety? Dance in a Buffalo Skull is an American Indain tale of danger and survival on the Great Plains.
Author | : Zitkala-S̈a |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 509 |
Release | : 1901 |
Genre | : Siouan Indians |
ISBN | : |
Download The Soft-hearted Sioux Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle