The narrative explores the challenges faced by Zitkala-Sa, a Yankton Dakota writer, during her time in missionary schools, highlighting her cultural struggles. Complementing this personal account, the collection of 14 Sioux stories showcases traditional legends she learned in her youth, reflecting the rich oral traditions of various tribes. Together, these works emphasize the intersection of personal experience and cultural heritage in American Indian storytelling.
Zitkala-Sa, a prominent Yankton Dakota Sioux writer, educator, and activist, highlights the struggles and cultural heritage of Native Americans. This collection features her significant works, "Old Indian Legends," which preserves tribal stories from her childhood, and "American Indian Stories," an exploration of her painful experiences with cultural assimilation in white boarding schools. Blending autobiography with allegorical fiction, her writings provide a poignant account of the suffering faced by Native Americans, ensuring their stories are not forgotten.
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Serves as a collection of childhood stories, allegorical fiction, and an essay. This book talks about the legends and tales from oral tradition and used experiences from the author's life and community to educate others about the Yankton Sioux. It bridges the gap between her own culture and mainstream American society. schovat popis
A thought-provoking collection of searing prose from a Sioux woman that covers race, identity, assimilation, and perceptions of Native American cultureZitkala-Sa wrestled with the conflicting influences of American Indian and white culture throughout her life. Raised on a Sioux reservation, she was educated at boarding schools that enforced assimilation and was witness to major events in white-Indian relations in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Tapping her troubled personal history, Zitkala-Sa created stories that illuminate the tragedy and complexity of the American Indian experience. In evocative prose laced with political savvy, she forces new thinking about the perceptions, assumptions, and customs of both Sioux and white cultures and raises issues of assimilation, identity, and race relations that remain compelling today.
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Gertrude Simmons Bonnin (1876-1938), better known by her pen name, Zitkala-Sa, was a Native American writer, editor, musician, teacher and political activist. She was born and raised on the Yankton Sioux Reservation in South Dakota by her mother. Zitkala-Sa lived a traditional lifestyle until the age of eight when she left her reservation to attend Whites Manual Labor Institute, a Quaker mission school in Indiana. She went on to study for a time at Earlham College in Indiana and the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston. A considerable talent, Bonnin co-composed the first American Indian grand opera, The Sun Dance in 1913. After working as a teacher at Carlisle Indian Industrial School, she began publishing short stories and autobiographical vignettes. Her autobiographical writings were serialized in Atlantic Monthly and, later, published in a collection called American Indian Stories in 1921. Her first book, Old Indian Legends (1901), is a collection of folktales that she gathered during her visits home to the Yankton Reservation. Her other works include Stories of Iktomi and Other Legends of the Dakotas (1901) and Oklahoma's Poor Rich Indians (1924).
La autora, una india sioux educada en occidente, presenta cuentos y leyendas de su pueblo, transmitidos en reuniones tribales y a la luz de la hoguera. Es una obra que defiende las tradiciones de su cultura, escrita de manera accesible y sencilla.