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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Univ of Oklahoma Pr
Publication date
May 26, 2016
Binding
Hardcover
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780806151786
ISBN-10
0806151781
Original list price
$29.95
Other format details
university press
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My Life: Impressions of an Indian Childhood; The School Days of an Indian Girl; Why I am a Pagan | American Indian Stories, Legends, and Other Writings | Iktomi and the Ducks and Other Sioux Stories | A Recognition of Being | American Indian Stories and Old Indian Legends | Holding Our World Together | Dreams And Thunder
Summaries and Reviews
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Red Bird, Red Power tells the story of one of the most influentialâand controversialâAmerican Indian activists of the twentieth century. Zitkala-Å a (1876â1938), also known as Gertrude Simmons Bonnin, was a highly gifted writer, editor, and musician who dedicated her life to achieving justice for Native peoples. Here, Tadeusz Lewandowski offers the first full-scale biography of the woman whose passionate commitment to improving the lives of her people propelled her to the forefront of Progressive-era reform movements.
Lewandowski draws on a vast array of sources, including previously unpublished letters and diaries, to recount Zitkala-Å aâs unique life journey. Her story begins on the Dakota plains, where she was born to a Yankton Sioux mother and a white father. Zitkala-Å a, whose name translates as âRed Birdâ in English, left home at age eight to attend a Quaker boarding school, eventually working as a teacher at Carlisle Indian Industrial School. By her early twenties, she was the toast of East Coast literary society. Her short stories for the Atlantic Monthly (1900) are, to this day, the focus of scholarly analysis and debate. In collaboration with William F. Hanson, she wrote the libretto and songs for the innovative Sun Dance Opera (1913).
And yet, as Lewandowski demonstrates, Zitkala-Å aâs successes could not fill the void of her lost cultural heritage, nor dampen her fury toward the Euro-American establishment that had robbed her people of their land. In 1926, she founded the National Council of American Indians with the aim of redressing American Indian grievances.
Zitkala-Å aâs complex identity has made her an intriguingâif elusiveâsubject for scholars. In Lewandowskiâs sensitive interpretation, she emerges as a multifaceted human being whose work entailed constant negotiation. In the end, Lewandowski argues, Zitkala-Å aâs achievements distinguish her as a forerunner of the Red Power movement and an important agent of change.
Red Bird, Red Power tells the story of one of the most influentialâand controversialâAmerican Indian activists of the twentieth century. Zitkala-Å a (1876â1938), also known as Gertrude Simmons Bonnin, was a highly gifted writer, editor, and musician who dedicated her life to achieving justice for Native peoples. Here, Tadeusz Lewandowski offers the first full-scale biography of the woman whose passionate commitment to improving the lives of her people propelled her to the forefront of Progressive-era reform movements.
Lewandowski draws on a vast array of sources, including previously unpublished letters and diaries, to recount Zitkala-Å aâs unique life journey. Her story begins on the Dakota plains, where she was born to a Yankton Sioux mother and a white father. Zitkala-Å a, whose name translates as âRed Birdâ in English, left home at age eight to attend a Quaker boarding school, eventually working as a teacher at Carlisle Indian Industrial School. By her early twenties, she was the toast of East Coast literary society. Her short stories for the Atlantic Monthly (1900) are, to this day, the focus of scholarly analysis and debate. In collaboration with William F. Hanson, she wrote the libretto and songs for the innovative Sun Dance Opera (1913).
And yet, as Lewandowski demonstrates, Zitkala-Å aâs successes could not fill the void of her lost cultural heritage, nor dampen her fury toward the Euro-American establishment that had robbed her people of their land. In 1926, she founded the National Council of American Indians with the aim of redressing American Indian grievances.
Zitkala-Å aâs complex identity has made her an intriguingâif elusiveâsubject for scholars. In Lewandowskiâs sensitive interpretation, she emerges as a multifaceted human being whose work entailed constant negotiation. In the end, Lewandowski argues, Zitkala-Å aâs achievements distinguish her as a forerunner of the Red Power movement and an important agent of change.
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from Univ of Oklahoma Pr (May 26, 2016); titled "Red Bird, Red Power: The Life and Legacy of Zitkala-Å¡a"
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About: Red Bird, Red Power tells the story of one of the most influentialâand controversialâAmerican Indian activists of the twentieth century.
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