"Why I Am a Pagan"
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Zitkala-S̈a, 1876-1938
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Zitkala-S̈a (Zitkála-Šá, Lakota for Red Bird), also known as Gertrude Simmons Bonnin (her English and married names), was a Lakota writer, editor, translator, musician, educator, and political activist. Born on February 22, 1876 on the Yankton reservation in South Dakota, she was raised by a single mother. At eight years old she was taken by Quaker missionaries to White’s Indiana Manual Labor Institute in Wabash, Indiana, in spite of her mother's disapproval. The missionaries' stories about ri...
