ZITKALA-SA LEGENDS AS TOLD BY ZitkalaSa. Zitkala-Sa (Red Bird), Gertrude Simmons Bonnin, 1876-1938, was born at the Yankton http://www.y-indianguides.com/pfm_ik_zitkalasha.html
Extractions: THE IKTOMI LEGENDS AS TOLD BY ZITKALA-SA Zitkala-Sa (Red Bird), Gertrude Simmons Bonnin, 1876-1938, was born at the Yankton Reservation in South Dakota where she was raised as a Lakota Sioux. She 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 Indians, also editing their journal, American Indian Magazine. In 1921 she founded her own political organization, the National Council of American Indians. Much more information about Red Bird can be found here ". . . I prefer to their dogma my excursions into the natural gardens where the voice of the Great Spirit is heard in the twittering of birds, the rippling of mighty waters, and the sweet breathing of flowers. If this is Paganism, then at present, at least, I am a Pagan."
Extractions: Gertrude Bonnin (Zitkala-Sa) (Sioux) (1876-1938) Contributing Editor: Kristin Herzog Without a knowledge of Zitkala-Sa's life and the near impossibility for an American Indian woman of her time to publish independently, students will wonder where these stories fit in. It is important to point out the extreme difficulties of a writer trying to preserve a tribal heritage and yet to communicate to a white audience. Besides dealing with matters of biography, history, and style, I think approaching these early American Indian authors from the religious perspective (Native American spirituality versus enforced assimilation to Christian beliefs) is effective in helping students to sense the very basic dilemma of a writer, a problem of cultural and spiritual identity that goes deeper than mere issues of civil rights, important as they are. Students easily identify with the aspect of social criticism or rebellion, but may not find the style particularly attractive because they do not know the historical and biographical background and the tastes of the literary market at this time. Major Themes, Historical Perspectives, and Personal Issues
Gertrude Bonnin (Zitkala-Sa) (Sioux) (1876-1938) Gertrude Bonnin (ZitkalaSa) (Sioux) (1876-1938). Contributing EditorKristin Herzog. Classroom Issues and Strategies. Without a knowledge http://college.hmco.com/english/heath/syllabuild/iguide/bonnin.html
Extractions: Gertrude Bonnin (Zitkala-Sa) (Sioux) (1876-1938) Contributing Editor: Kristin Herzog Without a knowledge of Zitkala-Sa's life and the near impossibility for an American Indian woman of her time to publish independently, students will wonder where these stories fit in. It is important to point out the extreme difficulties of a writer trying to preserve a tribal heritage and yet to communicate to a white audience. Besides dealing with matters of biography, history, and style, I think approaching these early American Indian authors from the religious perspective (Native American spirituality versus enforced assimilation to Christian beliefs) is effective in helping students to sense the very basic dilemma of a writer, a problem of cultural and spiritual identity that goes deeper than mere issues of civil rights, important as they are. Students easily identify with the aspect of social criticism or rebellion, but may not find the style particularly attractive because they do not know the historical and biographical background and the tastes of the literary market at this time. Major Themes, Historical Perspectives, and Personal Issues
Zitkala-Sa Or Gertrude Simmons Bonnin About Gertrude Simmons Bonnin (ZitkalaSa) (1876-1938). About arts and literature. http://www.gonzaga.edu/faculty/campbell/enl311/zitkala.htm
Extractions: Meanwhile, the estrangement from her mother and the old ways of the reservation had grown, as had her indignation over the treatment of American Indians by the state, church, and population at large. Around 1900 she began to express her feelings publicly in writing. In articles in the Atlantic Monthly and other journals she struggled with the issues of cultural dislocation and injustice that brought suffering to her people. But her authorial voice was not merely critical. She was earnestly committed to being a bridge builder between cultures, for example, by writing Old Indian Legends, published in 1901. "I have tried," she says in the introduction to that work, "to transplant the native spirit of these talesroot and allinto the English language, since America in the last few centuries has acquired a second tongue." In the following decades, Zitkala-Sa's writing efforts were increasingly part of, and finally supplanted by, her work as an Indian rights activist. She had accepted a clerkship at the Standing Rock Reservation, where she met and married Raymond T. Bonnin, another Sioux employee of the Indian service. The Bonnins then transferred to a reservation in Utah where they became affiliated with the Society of American Indians. Zitkala-Sa was elected secretary of the Society in 1916, and the Bonnins moved to Washington, D.C., where she worked with the Society and edited the
Zitkala-Sa Images of ZitkalaSa In the last years of the nineteenth century, photographer Gertrude Käsebier (1852-1934) began photographing members of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show in New York City. http://saxakali.com/youth/zitkala-sa.htm
Extractions: This course makes use of an online text, Impressions of an Indian Childhood , and is divided into five two-hour lessons. Students are required to read about 3 pages each learning session. Follow each lesson on the right and then come back and take the quiz. Be sure to find out all the right answers to the quiz before moving on to the next lesson. After you have completed all of the readings, do the final project below, and email it to coloru@saxakali.com Introduction Gertrude Bonnin (Zitkala-Sa) (1876-1938) Lesson 1 Impressions of Childhood
Fiction: Zitkala-Sa ZitkalaSa (1876-1938). LINKS. Internet Public Library Native American Authors Project http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/LITLINKS/fiction/zitkala.htm
Extractions: MM_preloadImages('../images/m_research_o.gif'); MM_preloadImages('../images/m_related_o.gif'); MM_preloadImages('../images/m_literary_o.gif'); MM_preloadImages('../images/m_critical_o.gif'); MM_preloadImages('../images/m_essays_o.gif'); MM_preloadImages('../images/m_poetry_o.gif'); MM_preloadImages('../images/m_drama_o.gif'); MM_preloadImages('../images/m_fiction_o.gif'); Zitkala-Sa [Gertrude Simmons Bonnin, (1876-1938)] was born at the Yankton Sioux Agency in South Dakota, the third child of Tate I Yohin Win (Reaches for the Wind), a full-blood Dakota woman, and a white man who deserted the mother before her daughter's birth. Zitkala-Sa was raised in the Dakota Sioux tribe, but in 1884 she was persuaded to follow missionaries back to a Quaker boarding schools for Indians in Wabash, Indiana. After six years at the boarding school, Zitkala-Sa studied at Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana, from 1895 to 1897 and then began to teach at Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania in 1899. There, under the Lakota name Zitkala-Sa (Red Bird), she started to publish autobiographical stories in magazines. In 1900
Voices From The Gaps: Gertrude Simmons Bonnin (Zitakala-Sa) GERTRUDE SIMMONS BONNIN (ZitkalaSa) (1876-1938). PROJECT INFO. Overview andpurpose of the program. Awards. Credits acknowledgments. List of contributors. http://voices.cla.umn.edu/authors/BONNINgertrude.html
Extractions: PROJECT INFO Overview and purpose of the program Awards List of contributors Permissions list ... Contact us (please note that we have no contact with the writers and cannot provide contact information) A 'Christianity' pugilist commented upon a recent article of mine, grossly perverting the spirit of my pen. Still I would not forget that the pale-faced missionary and the hoodooed aborigine are both God's creatures, though small indeed their own conceptions of Infinite Love. A wee child toddling in a wonder world, I prefer to their dogma my excursions into the natural gardens where the voice of the Great Spirit is heard in the twittering of birds, the rippling of mighty waters, and the sweet breathing of flowers. If this is Paganism, then at present, at least, I am a Pagan. "Why I am A Pagan" Gertrude Simmons Bonnin (Zitkala-Sa) Photo credits Click to go to: Biography - Criticism Selected Bibliography Related Links BIOGRAPHY - CRITICISM Gertrude Simmons Bonnin, Zitkala Sha (Red Bird), was an extraordinarily talented and educated Native American woman who struggled and triumphed in a time when severe prejudice prevailed toward Native American culture and women. Her talents and contributions in the worlds of literature, music, and politics challenge long-standing beliefs in the white man's culture as good, and Native Americans as sinful savages. Bonnin aimed at creating understanding between the dominant white and Native American cultures. As a woman of mixed white and Native American ancestry, she embodied the need for the two cultures to live cooperatively within the same body of land. Her works criticized dogma, and her life as a Native American woman was dedicated against the evils of oppression.
Project Gutenberg Author Record Project Gutenberg Author record. ZitkalaSa, 1876-1938. Titles. Old IndianLegends. To the main listings page. Main Project Gutenberg Web page (online). http://www.ibiblio.org/gutenberg/authors/zitkala-sa__1876-1938.html
Extractions: First Edition, Signed by the author on the half-title in purple ink, "Zitkala-Sa/(Gertrude Bonnin)". 8vo, 195pp; tan cloth stamped in red and black in Indian design with author and title in black on front and spine. Lower tips rubbed, spine a bit soiled, generally very good. Zitkala-Sa [Gertrude Simmons Bonnin] (1876-1938), Indian author and reformer, was born in South Dakota on a reservation. As a child she was educated at a Quaker missionary school in Indiana, and during this time, she grew estranged from her family and from Sioux traditions. She became painfully aware of the tension between tradition and acculturation and of the great lack of understanding people had about Native American cultures. In response, she adopted the named Zitkala-Sa (Red Bird) and began writing about her experiences. Her realizations as a young woman about the difficulties of being part Native American led her to lifelong work in political reform and cultural education. As a political activist, Bonnin worked with and founded several organizations focused on Native American rights. She served as secretary of the first Indian reform organization managed by Indians, the Society of American Indians. She was also the editor of the society's magazine, the American Indian Magazine from 1918 to 1919. After the dissolution of the organization, she founded the National Council of American Indians and was president of the organization until her death in 1938. She also worked through the General Federation of Women's Clubs, helping establish the Indian Welfare Committee in 1921. She and her husband, Raymond Bonnin, lobbied the Congress and the Bureau of Indian Affairs on behalf of the Sioux and the Utes. Bonnin, a talented orator since her youth, also lectured on Sioux culture and the need for reform, appearing in traditional costume.
Project Gutenberg Author Index Author Index Z . Zaeunemann, Sidonia Hedwig. Zerbe, James Slough, 1850.Zitkala-Sa, 1876-1938. Zola, Emile, 1840-1902. Zorrilla, José, 1817-1893. http://www.ibiblio.org/gutenberg/authors/author_index_Z.html
Fiction: Zitkala-Sa Back to List ZitkalaSa (1876-1938) LINKS Internet Public Library Native AmericanAuthors Project http//www.ipl.org/cgi/ref/native/browse.pl/A91 http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/litlinks/fiction/zitkala.htm
Extractions: MM_preloadImages('../images/m_research_o.gif'); MM_preloadImages('../images/m_related_o.gif'); MM_preloadImages('../images/m_literary_o.gif'); MM_preloadImages('../images/m_critical_o.gif'); MM_preloadImages('../images/m_essays_o.gif'); MM_preloadImages('../images/m_poetry_o.gif'); MM_preloadImages('../images/m_drama_o.gif'); MM_preloadImages('../images/m_fiction_o.gif'); Zitkala-Sa [Gertrude Simmons Bonnin, (1876-1938)] was born at the Yankton Sioux Agency in South Dakota, the third child of Tate I Yohin Win (Reaches for the Wind), a full-blood Dakota woman, and a white man who deserted the mother before her daughter's birth. Zitkala-Sa was raised in the Dakota Sioux tribe, but in 1884 she was persuaded to follow missionaries back to a Quaker boarding schools for Indians in Wabash, Indiana. After six years at the boarding school, Zitkala-Sa studied at Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana, from 1895 to 1897 and then began to teach at Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania in 1899. There, under the Lakota name Zitkala-Sa (Red Bird), she started to publish autobiographical stories in magazines. In 1900
Extractions: This course makes use of an online text, Impressions of an Indian Childhood , and is divided into five two-hour lessons. Students are required to read about 3 pages each learning session. Follow each lesson on the right and then come back and take the quiz. Be sure to find out all the right answers to the quiz before moving on to the next lesson. After you have completed all of the readings, do the final project below, and email it to coloru@saxakali.com Introduction Gertrude Bonnin (Zitkala-Sa) (1876-1938) Lesson 1 Impressions of Childhood
Backflip Publisher: Tonkteacher | Folder: Zitkala-Sa Native American Authors Zitkala Sa the Internet Public Library Native American AuthorsProject Zitkala Sa , 18761938 Sioux Dakota Zitkala Sa was born at the http://www.backflip.com/members/tonkteacher/9721224/sort=0
Why I Am Pagan By Zitkala-Sa Why I Am Pagan by ZitkalaSa (Gertrude Bonnin) (1876-1938). Writtenin 1902. When the spirit swells my breast I love to roam leisurely http://13moons.org/bos/why_i_am_pagan.htm
Extractions: (Gertrude Bonnin) (1876-1938) Written in 1902. When the spirit swells my breast I love to roam leisurely among the green hills; or sometimes, sitting on the brink of the murmuring Missouri, I marvel at the great blue overhead. With half closed eyes I watch the huge cloud shadows in their noiseless play upon the high bluffs opposite me, while into my ear ripple the sweet, soft cadences of the river's song. Folded hands lie in my lap, for the time forgot. My heart and I lie small upon the earth like a grain of throbbing sand. Drifting clouds and tinkling waters, together with the warmth of a genial summer day, bespeak with eloquence the loving Mystery round about us. During the idle while I sat upon the sunny river brink, I grew somewhat, though my response be not so clearly manifest as in the green grass fringing the edge of the high bluff back of me.
Images Of Zitkala-Sa Käsebier's style. Käsebier had met ZitkalaSa (1876-1938) in NewYork in the last years of the nineteenth century. Zitkala-Sa http://www.library.csi.cuny.edu/dept/history/lavender/zitkalasaimages.html
Extractions: In Keiley's portrait of her, he presents Zitkala-Sa as a dreamy, unfocused representative of Indian womanhood. Among the several portraits Keiley took of Zitkala-Sa are four photographs of her in Chinese dress; these represent Keiley's view of her as an exotic "type" without regard to her individual identity or her Lakota origins.
Timeline 18471931), Parade of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show (1898) Zitkala-Sa (1876-1938), Impressions of an Indian Childhood (1900about 1870s-1880s) Mary Austin http://www.library.csi.cuny.edu/dept/history/lavender/time502.html
