Zitkala-Sa : : letters, speeches, and unpublished writings, 1898-1929 / / edited by Tadeusz Lewandowski.

• Author: Zitkala-S̈a, 1876-1938.
• TeilnehmendeR: Lewandowski, Tadeusz.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2018]
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: International Studies in Sociology and Social Anthropology 129.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xix, 270 pages) :; illustrations.

Zitkala-Ša: Letters, Speeches, and Unpublished Writings, 1898–1929 , edited by Tadeusz Lewandowski, offers a fascinating, intimate portrait of the Yankton Sioux writer and activist Gertrude Simmons Bonnin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

Table of Contents

Front Matter / Tadeusz Lewandowski -- Zitkala-Ša/Gertrude Simmons Bonnin: A Biographical Sketch / Tadeusz Lewandowski -- From Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, and the Dakotas (1898–1902) / Tadeusz Lewandowski -- From Utah and Los Angeles (1908–17) / Tadeusz Lewandowski -- From Washington, D.C. (1917–19) / Tadeusz Lewandowski -- “The Sioux Claims” / Tadeusz Lewandowski -- “Our Sioux People” / Tadeusz Lewandowski -- “How the National Council of American Indians Came into Being and What of the Things It is Trying to Do through Organization” (ca. 1926) / Tadeusz Lewandowski -- “Petition of the National Council of American Indians to The Senate of the United States of America Assembled, Under Amendment I of the Constitution” (1926) / Tadeusz Lewandowski -- “American Indian Problem: Address before the Indian Rights Association to Discuss the Report ‘Problem of Indian Administration’ by the Institute for Government Research—Atlantic City, December 14–15, 1928” / Tadeusz Lewandowski -- “The Indian Side of the Question” / Tadeusz Lewandowski -- Selected Bibliography / Tadeusz Lewandowski -- Index / Tadeusz Lewandowski.