Stories and Legends

By Zitkála-Šá

Biographical Introduction Zitkála-Sá was a Yankton Sioux woman who spoke with a powerful voice on Native matters and in favor of the preservation of Native ways and Native culture. She was born in 1876, the year of the Deadwood gold rush and the beginning of a series of events that would culminate in the massacre at Wounded Knee in 1890. Zitkála-Sá was sent east to be educated first at a Quaker boarding school and a Quaker college. She taught, briefly, at the then famous Carlisle Institute, but left it when she grew frustrated with its assimilationist policies. She married fellow Yankton Raymond Bonnin in 1902, and shortly thereafter moved away from South Dakota and the Yankton reservation. The couple would eventually settle in Washington, D.C., where Zitkála-Sá was a co-founder of The National Council of American Indians. This book collects two of Zitkála-Sá's most popular works: American Indian Stories and Old Indian Legends . American Indian Stories is itself a collection of articles, including some autobiographical, that Zitkála-Sá wrote for various magazines, principally The Atlantic .

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0F6D212VJ
• ISBN13: 9798281159937
• Release Date: April 2025
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 138 Pages
• Weight: 0.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.3" x 6.0"