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Dreams and Thunder: Stories, Poems, and The Sun Dance Opera
Current price:
$22.95
Publication Date: September 1st, 2001
Publisher:
University of Nebraska Press
ISBN:
9780803249189
Pages:
171
Description
Zitkala-Ša (Red Bird) (1876–1938), also known as Gertrude Simmons Bonnin, was one of the best-known and most influential Native Americans of the twentieth century. Born on the Yankton Sioux Reservation, she remained true to her indigenous heritage as a student at the Boston Conservatory and a teacher at the Carlisle Indian School, as an activist in turn attacking the Carlisle School, as an artist celebrating Native stories and myths, and as an active member of the Society of American Indians in Washington DC. All these currents of Zitkala-Ša’s rich life come together in this book, which presents her previously unpublished stories, rare poems, and the libretto of The Sun Dance Opera.
Praise for Dreams and Thunder: Stories, Poems, and The Sun Dance Opera
“This new collection of previously unpublished writing by Zitkala-Ša (Gertrude Bonnin) marks a milestone in the scholarship of this crucial figure in Native literary and intellectual history. Meticulously researched, editor P. Jane Hafen’s compilation advances our understanding of this Yankton Sioux writer, activist, and artist, about whom little has been documented. . . . This is an indispensable addition to American Indian Studies in general and to Yankton Sioux literary history in particular.”—Great Plains Quarterly
“Hafen has done a great service to the study of American Indian literature by collecting in one book several published and unpublished pieces. . . . A wonderful and enlightening collection.”—Choice
