Author: RAPPAPORT, DOREEN
Title: The Flight of Red Bird: The Life of Zitkala-Sa.
Description: New York : Dial Books, 1997.. First Edition. First Printing 186 p.,black and white with historic photographs., chronology, glossary, sources, bibliography, index. HARDCOVER: (Orig. clotth with gilt. tittle. Picttorial Dust Jacket . BRAND-NEW) ¶ In 1884 eight year old Gertrude Bonnin was taken from her family on the Yankton Sioux Reservation and brought to a Quaker-run boarding school in Indiana. Like thousands of other Indian children, she was forced to become 'civilized' -- to give up her language, customs, dress, and religious practices. Angry and humiliated, she later harnessed her anger and became a native American reformer. Renaming herself Zitkala-Sa, which means Red Bird, she devoted her life to making white audiences aware of the injustices done to Native Americans. In recreating the life of this Native American woman

Keywords: North America U.S.A. anthropology & ethnography North American Indians photography art literature poetry


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