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Zitkála-Šá (Gertrude Simmons Bonnin)
Zitkála-Šá | |
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Zitkala-Ša in 1898, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution | |
| Born | (1876-02-22)February 22, 1876 |
| Other names | Gertrude Simmons Bonnin |
| Education | White's Manual Labor Institute, Wabash, Indiana |
| Alma mater | Earlham College |
| Occupation(s) | Writer, editor, musician, teacher, Native American activist |
Zitkála-Šá (Lakota for Red Bird; February 22, 1876 – January 26, 1938), also known by her missionary and married names Gertrude Simmons Bonnin, was a political activist in the 20th century.
Through out her life she wrote nine books that brought attention to the life of an Native American person in the 20th century, including American Indian Stories, Old Indian Legends, American Indian Stories and other writings, Dance in a Buffalo Skull, American Indian and Old Indian Legends, Impressions of an Indian childhood Dreams and Thunder, Iktomi And The Ducks And Other Sioux Stories and The Schoo