Zitkala-Sa

Zitkala-Sa

Zitkála-Šá (Lakota for Red Bird; February 22, 1876 – January 26, 1938), also known by her missionary-given and later married name Gertrude Simmons Bonnin, was a Yankton Dakota writer, editor, translator, musician, educator, and political activist. She wrote several works chronicling her struggles with cultural identity and the pull between the majority culture she was educated within and her Dakota culture into which she was born and raised. Her later books were among the first works to bring traditional Native American stories to a widespread white English-speaking readership, and she has been noted as one of the most influential Native American activists of the 20th century. Working with American musician William F. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Zitkala-Sa has received more than 1,215,533 page views. Her biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Zitkala-Sa is the 5,051st most popular writer (down from 4,245th in 2019), the 9,014th most popular biography from United States (down from 6,772nd in 2019) and the 695th most popular American Writer.