The Story of Zitkala-Ša, Native American Author, Musician, and Activist
by
Gina Capaldi, Q. L. Pearce
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
"I remember the day I lost my spirit." 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...