ELEC copy purchased with funds from the Lloyd and Charlotte Wineland Library Endowment for Native American and Western Exploration Literature
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Contents:
Prologue: an Indian's awakening -- The school days of an Indian girl -- Carlisle and the Atlantic Monthly -- Montezuma and the rebellion -- Uintah -- The Sun Dance opera and the peyote "menace" -- New opportunities, new trials -- In the Society of American Indians -- In Washington at war -- The peyote clash -- Forging a plan of resistance -- Oklahoma -- Princess Zitkala-Ša and the National Council of American Indians -- The final diaries -- Conclusion: Zitkala-Ša and red power
Summary:
Red Bird, Red Power tells the story of one of the most influential--and controversial--American Indian activists of the twentieth century. Zitkala-Ša (1876-1938), also known as Gertrude Simmons Bonnin, was a highly gifted writer, editor, and musician who dedicated her life to achieving justice for Native peoples. Here, Tadeusz Lewandowski offers the first full-scale biography of the woman whose passionate commitment to improving the lives of her people propelled her to the forefront of Progressive-era reform movements
