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Zitkala-Ša (Gertrude Bonnin) was one of the early Indian freelance writers to record tribal legends and tales from oral custom. Impressions of Indian Youth describes her first eight yeas on the Yankton Reservation, where she was born in 1876. Her schooling in Indiana unveiled a gift idea for writing that led in 1901 to the publication of Old Indian Legends, also a Bison Booklet. For the rest of her rife, this Sioux is at the poignant but creative position of aiming to bridge the difference between her own culture and the dominating white one, unable to return fully to the past or to get into fully in to the latter.
These parts, essentially autobiographical, were first gathered and published in 1921. With the reissue, Zitkala-Ša will take her rightful place among such local interpreters of Sioux culture as Charles A. Eastman and Luther Position Carry
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