American Indian Stories, Legends, and Other Writings (Penguin Classics) Paperback – February 25, 2003 by Zitkala-Sa

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Author: Zitkala-Sa

Brand: Penguin Classics

Color: Multicolor

Package Dimensions: 18x196x222

Number Of Pages: 320

Release Date: 25-02-2003

Details: From Booklist Sioux writer and activist Zitkala-Sa (1876-1938) was born in the year of the infamous Battle of Little Big Horn–her people’s last victory over the invasion forces that would soon force them onto reservations, on one of which she grew up under a regime of forced assimilation. Her writing career blossomed early, with stories published in the Atlantic Monthly when she was in her early twenties. She could have been a mere exotic, but she found a way to capture the interest of non-Indian readers, who preferred the romanticized noble savage to the often-sad reality of Indian life, and to give voice to her threatened culture. Her work, surprisingly, seems undated, perhaps because, unfortunately, the situation of Indian people has changed so little. This first comprehensive collection of her work, consisting of a significant sequence of mythic tales as well as memoirs and poetry, reveals Zitkala-Sa as a crusading, spiritually aware woman. Patricia MonaghanCopyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved Product Description A thought-provoking collection of searing prose from a Sioux woman that covers race, identity, assimilation, and perceptions of Native American cultureZitkala-Sa wrestled with the conflicting influences of American Indian and white culture throughout her life. Raised on a Sioux reservation, she was educated at boarding schools that enforced assimilation and was witness to major events in white-Indian relations in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Tapping her troubled personal history, Zitkala-Sa created stories that illuminate the tragedy and complexity of the American Indian experience. In evocative prose laced with political savvy, she forces new thinking about the perceptions, assumptions, and customs of both Sioux and white cultures and raises issues of assimilation, identity, and race relations that remain compelling today. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. Table of Contents AMERICAN INDIAN STORIES, LEGENDS, AND OTHER WRITINGSTitle PageCopyright PageAcknowledgementsIntroduction I – OLD INDIAN LEGENDSPrefaceIktomi and the DucksIktomi’s BlanketIktomi and the MuskratIktomi and the CoyoteIktomi and the FawnThe Badger and the BearThe Tree-BoundShooting of the Red EagleIktomi and the TurtleDance in a Buffalo SkullThe Toad and the BoyIya, the Camp-EaterMans̈tin, the RabbitThe Warlike Seven II – AMERICAN INDIAN STORIESImpressions of an Indian ChildhoodThe School Days of an Indian GirlAn Indian Teacher Among IndiansThe Great SpiritThe Soft-Hearted SiouxThe Trial PathA Warrior’s DaughterA Dream of Her GrandfatherThe Widespread Enigma Concerning Blue-Star WomanAmerica’s Indian Problem III – SELECTIONS FROM AMERICAN INDIAN MAGAZINEThe Indian’s Awakening ( January-March 1916)A Year’s Experience in Community Service Work Among the Ute Tribe of Indians …The Red Man’s America ( January-March 1917)Chipeta, Widow of Chief Ouray with a Word About a Deal in Blankets ( …A Sioux Woman’s Love for Her Grandchild (October-December 1917)Editorial Comment (July-September 1918)Indian Gifts to Civilized Man ( July-September 1918)Secretary’s Report in Brief ( July-September 1918)Editorial Comment (Winter 1919)America, Home of the Red Man (Winter 1919)The Coronation of Chief Powhatan Retold (Winter 1919)Letter to the Chiefs and Headmen of the Tribes (Winter 1919)Editorial Comment (Spring 1919)Editorial Comment (Summer 1919)An Indian Praying on the Hilltop (Spring 1919)Address by the Secretary-Treasurer, Society of American Indians Annual … IV – POETRY, PAMPHLETS, ESSAYS, AND SPEECHESSide by Side (March 1896)A Ballad (January 1897)Iris of Life (November 1898)A Protest Against the Abolition of the Indian Dance (August 1902)The Menace of Peyote (ca. 1916)Americanize the First American (1921)Bureaucracy Versus Democracy (1921)A Dakota Ode to Washington (1922)California Indian Trails and Prayer Trees (1922)Lost Treaties of the California Indians (1922)The California I