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Old Indian Legends
Old Indian Legends (1901) is a collection of traditional stories from Yankton Dakota writer Zitkála-Sá. Published while Zitkála-Sá was just beginning her career as an artist and activist, Old Indian Legends collects fourteen traditional legends and stories passed down through Sioux oral tradition. Intending to keep the stories or her people alive, Zitkála-Sá popularized and protected these...
Zitkála-Sá (1876-1938) was a Yankton Dakota writer, translator, musician, teacher, and activist. Born on the Yankton Indian Reservation in South Dakota, Zitkála-Sá--also known as Gertrude Simmons Bonnin--was raised by her mother following their abandonment by her German American father. Zitkála-Sá grew up on the reservation, but was taken by missionaries at the age of eight to the...
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