Zitkala-Sa

Letters, Speeches, and Unpublished Writings, 1898-1929
Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-90-04-34210-1
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 129, 272 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 544 g

Reihe: International Studies in Sociology and Social Anthropology

Zitkala-Ša: Letters, Speeches, and Unpublished Writings, 1898–1929, edited by Tadeusz Lewandowski, offers a fascinating, intimate portrait of the Yankton Sioux writer and activist Gertrude Simmons Bonnin (1876–1938).

Gertrude Bonnin, better known by her Lakota name, Zitkala-Ša, was one of the most prominent American Indians of the early 20th century. A talented writer, orator, and musician, she devoted much of her life to the protection of Native peoples. As such, Bonnin corresponded with many other distinguished persons within the early Native rights movement, including Carlos Montezuma, Richard Henry Pratt, and Arthur C. Parker, as well as Fathers Martin Kenel and William H. Ketcham of the Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions. This volume gathers together Bonnin’s letters, lesser-known writings and speeches, illuminating her private and public struggles.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lewandowski, Tadeusz

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Indigene Völker
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
List of Figures
List of Archive Abbreviations
Notes on the Archival Material
Notes on the Editorial Policy
Chronology

Zitkala-Ša/Gertrude Simmons Bonnin: A Biographical Sketch

Letters

From Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, and the Dakotas (1898–1902)

From Uintah and Los Angeles (1908–17)

From Washington, D.C. (1917–19)

Speeches and Unpublished Writings

“The Sioux Claims” (1923)

“Our Sioux People” (1923)

“How the National Council of American Indians Came into Being and What of the Things It is Trying to Do through Organization.” (ca. 1926)

“The Petition of the National Council of American Indians” (1926)

“American Indian Problem” (1928)

“The Indian Side of the Question” (1929)
Selected Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Tadeusz Lewandowski, Ph.D. (2009), University of Opole, is Associate Professor and Head of the Department of American Literature and Culture at the University of Opole, Poland. He is the author of Red Bird, Red Power: The Life and Legacy of Zitkala-Ša (University of Oklahoma Press, 2016).