American Passages - Unit 8. Regional Realism: Authors Authors ZitkalaSa (Gertrude Simmons Bonnin) (1876-1938) Zitkala-Sa foundit a hostile environment and struggled to adapt. After three years at school, http://www.learner.org/amerpass/unit08/authors-10.html
Extractions: Home Channel Video Catalog About Us ... Contact Us Select a Different Unit 1. Native Voices 2. Exploring Borderlands 3. Utopian Promise 4. Spirit of Nationalism 5. Masculine Heroes 6. Gothic Undercurrents 7. Slavery and Freedom 8. Regional Realism 9. Social Realism 10. Rhythms in Poetry 11. Modernist Portraits 12. Migrant Struggle 13. Southern Renaissance 14. Becoming Visible 15. Poetry of Liberation 16. Search for Identity This link leads to artifacts, teaching tips and discussion questions for this author. Writer, musician, educator, and Indian rights activist, Zitkala-Sa (or Red Bird) was born on the Sioux Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. After her white father abandoned the family, she was brought up by her Indian mother in traditional Sioux ways. At the age of eight, Zitkala-Sa's life was transformed when white missionaries came to Pine Ridge and convinced her to enroll in a boarding school in Wabash, Indiana. Part of a movement to "civilize" Indian children by removing them from their native culture and indoctrinating them in Euro-American ways, the school trained Indian pupils in manual labor, Christianity, and the English language. Zitkala-Sa found it a hostile environment and struggled to adapt.
American Passages - Unit 8. Regional Realism: Authors ZitkalaSa (Gertrude Simmons Bonnin) (1876-1938) Writer, musician, educator, andIndian rights activist, Zitkala-Sa (or Red Bird) was born on the Sioux Pine http://www.learner.org/amerpass/unit08/authors.html
Extractions: Home Channel Video Catalog About Us ... Contact Us Select a Different Unit 1. Native Voices 2. Exploring Borderlands 3. Utopian Promise 4. Spirit of Nationalism 5. Masculine Heroes 6. Gothic Undercurrents 7. Slavery and Freedom 8. Regional Realism 9. Social Realism 10. Rhythms in Poetry 11. Modernist Portraits 12. Migrant Struggle 13. Southern Renaissance 14. Becoming Visible 15. Poetry of Liberation 16. Search for Identity Charles W. Chesnutt was a pioneer among African American fiction writers, addressing controversial issues of race in a realist style that commanded the attention and respect of the white literary establishment of the late nineteenth century. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Chesnutt was the son of free parents who had... Writing at the end of the nineteenth century at the height of the popularity of "local color" fiction, Kate Chopin introduced American readers to a new fictional setting with her evocations of the diverse culture of Cajun and Creole Louisiana. But while much of Chopin's work falls into the category of regionalism , her...
Extractions: Site Orientation Heath Orientation Timeline Galleries Access Author Profile Pages by: Fifth Edition Table of Contents Fourth Edition Table of Contents Concise Edition Table of Contents Authors by Name ... Internet Research Guide Textbook Site for: The Heath Anthology of American Literature , Fifth Edition 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
Reader's Companion To American History - -BONNIN, GERTRUDE (18761938), Yankton Sioux writer and pan-Indian activist. Bonnin, or Zitkala-Sa,was the author of Old Indian Legends (1901) and American Indian Stories http://college.hmco.com/history/readerscomp/rcah/html/ah_011300_bonningertru.htm
Extractions: Entries Publication Data Advisory Board Contributors ... World Civilizations The Reader's Companion to American History , Yankton Sioux writer and pan-Indian activist. Bonnin, or Zitkala-Sa, was the author of Old Indian Legends (1901) and American Indian Stories (1921), and a leader in the first twentieth-century political pan-Indian movement, the Society of American Indians (1916-1919). She also founded and served as president of the National Council of American Indians (1926-1938). Zitkala-Sa rose to national prominence in the early decades of the twentieth century as a proponent of cultural pluralism and Indian self-determination in defiance of long-prevailing government acculturation policies. Almost alone among both Indian and white Progressive Era reformers, she rejected the efforts of well-meaning but ethnocentric government and philanthropic assimilationists who sought to "save" the Indian. Throughout her life she demanded American recognition of the continuing viability of Indian societies and an Indian identity. Zitkala-Sa kept the reform pan-Indian movement alive in the decades between the demise of the Society of American Indians in the 1920s and the formation of subsequent organizations. The National Council of American Indians, which she founded in 1926, identified crucial land and resources issues facing Indian peoples while developing techniques to attract public attention. Throughout the 1920s, she worked with the General Federation of Women's Clubs to establish their nationally active Indian Welfare Committee. She participated in an investigation of government abuses endured by Oklahoma Indian peoples and wrote much of the final report published in 1924
Fiction: Zitkala-Sa ZitkalaSa (1876-1938) LINKS Internet Public Library Native American AuthorsProject Zitkala-Sa Gertrude Simmons Bonnin, (1876-1938) was born at the 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
Zitkala-Sa Gertrude Simmons Bonnin Native American Writer And Research ZitkalaSa at the Questia.com online library. under her reads GertrudeSimmons Bonnin Zitkala Sa of the Sioux Indians 1876-1938. http://www.questia.com/library/literature/zitkala-sa.jsp
Images Of Zitkala-Sa Käsebier had met ZitkalaSa (1876-1938) in New York in the last years of thenineteenth century. Zitkala-Sa was becoming well-known as a performer, writer, 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 ZitkalaSa (1876-1938), Impressions of an Indian Childhood (1900about1870s-1880s) Mary Austin (1868-1934), The Land of Little Rain (1903) http://www.library.csi.cuny.edu/dept/history/lavender/time502.html
Why I Am Pagan By Zitkala-Sa Why I Am Pagan by ZitkalaSa (Gertrude Bonnin) (1876-1938). Written in 1902.When the spirit swells my breast I love to roam leisurely among the green hills http://13moons.com/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.
VG: Artist Biography: Bonnin, Gertrude Simmons (ZITKALA-SA) GERTRUDE SIMMONS BONNIN (ZitkalaSa) b. 1876-1938. permissions info. Jump toBiography and Criticism Selected Bibliography Non-English Materials http://voices.cla.umn.edu/vg/Bios/entries/bonnin_gertrude_simmons_zitkalasa.html
Extractions: Jump to: Biography and Criticism Selected Bibliography Non-English Materials Related Links Gertrude Simmons Bonnin, Zitkala-a (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 that the white man's culture is good, and Native Americans are 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. Bonnin was born in 1876, on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. Her father was a white man named Felker, about who little is known. Her mother was Ellen Tate Iyohinwin (She Reaches for the Wind) Simmons, a full-blooded Sioux. Bonnin was Simmons' third child. At only eight years of age, Bonnin decided to leave her mother and the reservation to attend White's Manual Labor Institute in Wabash, Indiana. This was a school funded by the Quakers. After four years, she returned home but then enrolled, against her mother's wishes, at the Santee Normal Training School. She chose this school because it was close to her mother. In 1895, she decided to move on and accepted entrance to and scholarships from Earlham College in Indiana.
Zitkala-Sa ZitkalaSa history. Zitkala-a ( 1876-1938), later known as Gertrude Bonnin,was born on the Yankton Sioux Reservation, South Dakota. http://www.humanistictexts.org/zitkala.htm
Extractions: Authors born between 1800 and 1900 CE Darwin Gandhi Rodó [ Zitkala-Sa ] Click Up For A Summary Of Each Author Contents Introduction Indian Tears The Custom of Hospitality Temptation in Red Apples ... Sources Zitkala-a ( 1876-1938), later known as Gertrude Bonnin, was born on the Yankton Sioux Reservation, South Dakota. Her Sioux mother, Táte I Yóhin Win (Reaches for the Wind), was also known as Ellen Simmons. After being brought up in the oral traditions of the Sioux, Gertrude Simmons left home to attend a missionary boarding school in the east. The shock of the transition between cultures is described vividly in the extracts from her writing given below. The education she received at different schools culminated at Earlham College, Indiana, (1895-97) before illness caused her to leave. At college, Bonnin won prizes for violin and piano performances, and for oratory and singing. She placed second in an Indiana state oratory contest, with Biblical rhetoric that condemned hypocritical Christianity in particular and white society in general. This nevertheless drew public attention and acclaim, and probably provided her with the recognition that she could contribute successfully to public life. She subsequently taught at an industrial training school for Indians and attended the New England Conservatory of Music in 1900. In the following three years, Bonnin published articles under her adopted Indian name, Zitkala-a (Red Bird). In these she joined other Native American pioneers, such as Sarah Winnemucca (Paiute), in putting forward for the first time a view of Indian life that was not filtered through a non-native translator. She was able to articulate her outrage at the treatment of indigenous Indians by European immigrants. Her articles in
BookCloseouts.com - The Bestseller In Bargain Books Writer, teacher, and activist ZitkalaSa (1876-1938) championed Native Americancauses throughout her life. Born in the year of the Battle of Little Big http://www.bookcloseouts.com/default.asp?N=-42918
Zitkala-Sa ZitkalaSa Gertrude Simmons Bonnin 1876-1938 Zitkala-Sa was born at the YanktonSioux Agency in South Dakota. Her mother was a full-blood Sioux, http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/dept/english/CLit/ZITKALA/zitkala.html
Extractions: "The old legends of America belong quite as much to the blue-eyed little patriot as to the black-haired aborigine. And when they are grown tall like the wise grown-ups may they not lack interest in a further study of Indian folklore, a study which so strongly suggests our near kinship with the rest of humanity and points a steady finger toward the great brotherhood of mankind, and by which one is so forcibly impressed with the possible earnestness of life as seen through the teepee door! If it be true that much lies "in the eye of the beholder," then in the American aborigine as in any other race, sincerity of belief, though it were based upon mere optical illusion, demands a little respect." From Old Indian Legends by Zitkala-Sa
ZITKALA SA 1876 1938 (in MARION) ZITKALA SA 1876 1938. ZitkalaSa, 1876-1938. ( about) (2 titles); Zitkala-Sa,1876-1938. Sun dance opera. (1 title). Search the Catalog. http://library.cerritos.edu/MARION?A=ZITKALA SA 1876 1938
Extractions: Indian schools were charged with the task of processing the "Indian" out of Indians. Gertrude Simmons Bonnin (1876-1938) entered what she called "the civilizing machine" at White's Manual Labor Institute in Wabash, Indiana, a Quaker missionary school. Born of a white father and Yankton-Nakota Sioux mother, Bonnin left the reservation at the age of eight to attend White's, a move she made against the expressed disapproval of her mother. After White's she went to Earlham College in Indiana, and upon graduation took the name Zitkala-Sa. She studied at the New England Conservatory of Music and taught music at the Carlisle Indian School in Pennsylvania, a job from which she was fired when she began publishing her autobiographical essays. She went on to compose opera, edit American Indian Magazine , and lobby on behalf of Indian causes. "The School Days of an Indian Girl" tracks her education after arriving in "The Land of the Red Apples" through her college years. In it she ably conveys what to her was the strangeness of her new surroundings. She suffers repeated indignities, some inflicted innocently through cultural misunderstanding, others inflicted deliberately. Language and its subtle power to change a person are a constant theme. In the end she triumphs but at enormous cost.
Ibiblio :: More American West! by ZitkalaSa, 1876-1938 Released Oct 1995. Prehistoric World, The or, Vanishedraces by Allen, Emory Adams, 1853- Released Oct 2001 http://www.ibiblio.org/index.old/west.july2002.html
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TCG's Native American Lit Pages--Authors & Readings LINKS Zitkala Sa, 18761938 brief bio, links, bibliography (Native American Authors Gertrude Bonnin (Zitkala-Sa) (Sioux) (1876-1938) teaching strategies http://incolor.inebraska.com/tgannon/NAlitL.html
Extractions: Back to Course Index Please excuse the fact that this page's intent got outa handin my best (and worst) monomaniacal manner. Excuse the fact that I've included several idiosyncratic contemporary figures, authors of poems I've admired in the past, but whose names few might deem worthy of inclusion in such a list. . . . Excuse my perhaps too great emphasis on Lakota authors . . . And excuse me while I go add a few more links! . . . The authors are arranged chronologically, by date of birth; the lists of "characteristic works" are also (usually) chronologicalthough also by genre; finally, information on dates and tribal affiliations are often my "interpolations" from a variety of sources. TCG NATIVE AMERICAN LIT.GENERAL/MISCELLANEOUS:::: NativeAuthors.com defunct! INTERNET PUBLIC LIBRARY: Native American Authors Project especially author bibliographies Native American Authors Project: Index by Author Native American Authors Project: Index by Book Title WWW Virtual LibraryAmerican Indians "Index of Native American Book Resources on the Internet" (with extensive author links) (hanksville.org) STORYTELLERS: Native American Authors Online VOICES FROM THE GAPS "North American women writers of color" (U of Minnesota) Voices from the Gaps: Writers by Ethnicity Native AmericansInternet Resources links page (Internet School Library Media Center) Native AmericansTeacher Resources including author links VOICE OF THE SHUTTLE: Minority Literatures copious links NATIVE AMERICAN BOOKS book reviews, etc. (Paula Giese [kstrom.net])
Authors V-Z ZitkalaSa, 1876-1938 AKA Bonnin, Gertrude (Zitkala-Sa) Zola, Emile, 1840-1902Zschokke, Heinrich, 1771-1848. END. The index site for the Worldwide-Library http://www.worldwide-library.co.uk/Authors/v-z.htm
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