American Indian stories

Author: Zitkala-S̈a
ISBN: 9780803299023

"American Indian Stories is an important collection because it represents one of the first attempts by a Native American woman to write her own story without the aid of an editor, an interpreter, or an ethnographer. Zitkala-'a presents . . . the pain and difficulty of growing up Indian in a white man's world."-Dexter Fisher Zitkala-'a (Gertrude Bonnin) was one of the early Indian writers to record tribal legends and tales from oral tradition. "Impressions of an Indian Childhood" describes her first eight yeas on the Yankton Reservation, where she was born in 1876. Her schooling in Indiana revealed a gift for writing that led in 1901 to the publication of Old Indian Legends, also a Bison Book. For the rest of her rife, this Sioux was in the poignant but creative position of trying to bridge the gap between her own culture and the dominant white one, unable to return fully to the former or to enter fully into the latter. These pieces, largely autobiographical, were first collected and pu

Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Publish Date: 1985

Subjects: Indians of North America, Yankton Indians, Yankton women, Fiction / General, Fiction / Short Stories (single author), Social Science / Ethnic Studies / Native American Studies

This book is available in the following Community Centers: Women's Center (Location: Native American)