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American Indian Stories and Old Indian Legends - Zitkala-Sa

By Zitkala-Sa

Release Date: 2020-03-20

Genre: Fairy Tales, Myths & Fables

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Zitkala-Sa was an important and influential Yankton Dakota Sioux writer, educator, and political activist. Born in 1876 on a Sioux reservation in South Dakota, she spent her life working to bring the history and cultural concerns of Native Americans to the attention of the broader public. ā€œAmerican Indian Stories and Old Indian Legendsā€ collects two of her more important publications that document and preserve the history of her people, as well as the pain caused by the policies of assimilation. ā€œOld Indian Legendsā€, published in 1901 and early in her professional career, records for posterity and a wider American audience the stories and legends from various tribes that she remembered from her childhood. In ā€œAmerican Indian Storiesā€, published in 1921, Zitkala-Sa recounts her experience as a Native American child sent away to white boarding schools and forced to face the reality of cultural assimilation and submission. Part autobiography and part allegorical fiction, ā€œAmerican Indian Storiesā€ explores the suffering experienced by Native Americans when they were forced to adapt to white American culture and made to abandon their traditional way of life. Zitkala-Saā€™s work endures as an eloquent, engaging, and important personal and historical account of a people whose story is often overlooked.

American Indian Stories and Old Indian Legends - Zitkala-Sa

By Zitkala-Sa

Release Date: 2020-03-20

Genre: Fairy Tales, Myths & Fables

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Zitkala-Sa was an important and influential Yankton Dakota Sioux writer, educator, and political activist. Born in 1876 on a Sioux reservation in South Dakota, she spent her life working to bring the history and cultural concerns of Native Americans to the attention of the broader public. ā€œAmerican Indian Stories and Old Indian Legendsā€ collects two of her more important publications that document and preserve the history of her people, as well as the pain caused by the policies of assimilation. ā€œOld Indian Legendsā€, published in 1901 and early in her professional career, records for posterity and a wider American audience the stories and legends from various tribes that she remembered from her childhood. In ā€œAmerican Indian Storiesā€, published in 1921, Zitkala-Sa recounts her experience as a Native American child sent away to white boarding schools and forced to face the reality of cultural assimilation and submission. Part autobiography and part allegorical fiction, ā€œAmerican Indian Storiesā€ explores the suffering experienced by Native Americans when they were forced to adapt to white American culture and made to abandon their traditional way of life. Zitkala-Saā€™s work endures as an eloquent, engaging, and important personal and historical account of a people whose story is often overlooked.

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