Zitkála-Šá

Zitkála-Šá was born in 1876 on the Yankton reservation. At the age of eight she was sent to a Quaker boarding school in Indiana, where her hair was cut and she had to speak English. A violinist trained at the New England Conservatory, she taught music at Carlisle, then in 1901 published Dakota legends she had heard as a child, written for young Americans. In 1926 she co-founded with her husband a national council of American Indians, which she presided over until her death, and campaigned for citizenship and the right to vote. She died in Washington in 1938.

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• TaleOld Indian LegendsZitkála-Šá · 1901Literature