American Indian Stories

Name: American Indian Stories
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ISBN: 9780803299023

ISBN-10: 0803299028

ISBN-13: 9780803299023

Edition: 1985 (Reprint)

Authors: Zitkala-Sa, Dexter Fisher

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Zitkala-Ša (Gertrude Bonnin) was one of the early Indian writers to record tribal legends and tales from oral tradition.Impressions of an Indian Childhooddescribes her first eight yeas on the Yankton Reservation, where she was born in 1876. Her schooling in Indiana revealed a gift for writing that led in 1901 to the publication ofOld Indian Legends, also a Bison Book. For the rest of her rife, this Sioux was in the poignant but creative position of trying to bridge the gap between her own culture and the dominant white one, unable to return fully to the former or to enter fully into the latter. These pieces, largely autobiographical, were first collected and published in 1921. With their…

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List price: $12.95
Copyright year: 1985
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Publication date: 12/1/1985
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 196
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.00" long x 0.52" tall
Weight: 0.506
Language: English

Kate Chopin (1850-1904) was born in St. Louis. She moved to Louisiana where she wrote two novels and numerous stories. Because The Awakeningwas widely condemned, publication of Chopin's third story collection was cancelled. The Awakeningwas rediscovered by scholars in the 1960s and 1970s and is her best-known work. Sandra M. Gilbert teaches at the University of California, Davis.



Foreword Zitkala-ï¿½a: The Evolution of a Writer


Notes and References


Impressions of an Indian Childhood


The School Days of an Indian Girl


An Indian Teacher Among Indians


The Great Spirit


The Soft-Hearted Sioux


The Trial Path


A Warrior's Daughter


A Dream of Her Grandfather


The Widespread Enigma Concerning Blue-Star Woman


America's Indian Problem