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Call Number:
813.52 ZIT
Publication Date:
2019
Summary:
"Bright and carefree, Zitkála-Sá grows up on the Yankton Sioux reservation in South Dakota with her mother until Quaker missionaries arrive, offering a free education to all Sioux children. The catch: the children must leave their parents behind and travel to Indiana. Curious about the world beyond the reservation, Zitkála-Sá begs her mother to let her go -- and her mother, aware of the advantage that an education offers, reluctantly agrees. But the missionary school is not the adventure that Zitkála-Sá expected: the school is a strict one, her long hair is cut, and only English is spoken. She encounters racism and ridicule. Slowly, she adapts to her environment -- excelling at her studies, winning prizes for essay-writing and oration. Vivid and poignant, this memoir is the story of an activist in the making, a woman whose extraordinary career partially inspired the events of Killers of the Flower Moon."--
ISBN
9781984854216 1984854216
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Format:
Books
Call Number:
J B ZITKALA-SA
Publication Date:
2011
Summary:
""I remember the day I lost my spiriti.' So begins the story of Gertrude Simmons, also known as Zitkala-Ša, which means Red Bird. Born in 1876 on the Yankton Sioux reservation in South Dakota, Zitkala-Ša willingly left her home at age eight to go to a boarding school in Indiana. But she soon found herself caught between two worlds--white and Native American. When Zitkala-Ša graduated, she became a music teacher, composer, and performer. As an adult, she worked as an activist for Native American rights, seeking to build a bridge between cultures."--back cover.
ISBN
1541578368 9781541578364
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Books
Call Number:
J B ZITKALA-SA
Publication Date:
2011
Accelerated Reader Level:
6.1
Accelerated Reader Points:
1.0
Lexile Measure:
940
Summary:
Zitkala-Sa finds that she can sing through her music, but also by writing stories and giving speeches and being an activist for Native American rights.
ISBN
9780761352570 0761352570
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