"Help Indians Help Themselves": The Later Writings of Gertrude Simmons-Bonnin (Zitkala-Sa)

by P. Jane Hafen, Margaret Noodin (Foreword by)

Overview

An essential collection of writings and speeches by Zitkala-Sa, also known as Gertrude Simmons Bonnin, one of the twentieth century's most preeminent American Indian activists.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781682830451
Publisher:	Texas Tech University Press
Publication date:	05/31/2022
Series:	Plains Histories
Pages:	400
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.82(d)

About the Author

P. Jane Hafen (Taos Pueblo) is a Professor Emerita of English at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. She serves as an advisory editor of Great Plains Quarterly, is a board member of the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies, and is an Associate Fellow at the Center for Great Plains Studies. She is a Frances C. Allen Fellow, D'Arcy McNickle Center for the History of the American Indian, The Newberry Library, and was a founding Clan Mother of the Native American Literature Symposium. She edited Dreams and Thunder: Stories, Poems and The Sun Dance Opera by Zitkala-Sa, co-edited The Great Plains Reader, and is author of Reading Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine.