Zitkala

[Transcriber's note: The name Zitkala-Sa is written with two dots on the S]

A Mother's List of Books for Children Gertrude Weld Arnold

Three authors in particular -- Dr. Eastman, Mr. LaFlesche, and the Indian girl Zitkala-Sa -- have notably enriched our records of the characters and customs of their people.

Recent Writings By American Indians 1902

Zitkala-Sa is not only an educated Indian, but a writer of unusual quality.

Recent Writings By American Indians 1902

To express what civilization did for Zitkala-Sa, judging from her own account, we must turn again to Stevenson, the unrivalled interpreter of the aboriginal heart, who says: "You cannot change ancestral feelings of right and wrong without what is practically soul-murder."

Recent Writings By American Indians 1902

After three years of this Zitkala-Sa went back to her home, "neither a wee girl nor a tall one; neither a wild Indian nor a tame one."

Recent Writings By American Indians 1902

When, however, we read the biographical papers of Zitkala-Sa, contributed to the Atlantic a year or so ago, a very different note arrests our attention,

Recent Writings By American Indians 1902

For instance, it is notorious that the remarkable papers of Zitkala-Sa in the Atlantic brought down upon her head an avalanche of instructorial wrath -- most of it in ludicrous rhetorical contrast to her clean and high-minded style.

The Indian of Commerce Anonymous 1901

American Indian Stories by Zitkala-Sa [aka Gertrude Simmons Bonnin] (1876-1938).

American Indian Stories 1921