Gertrude Simmons Bonnin

Gertrude Simmons Bonnin also hangs in the "four strange summers" in the early teens before "the center of confusion", when Gertrude Simmons Bonin (Zitkala-Sa) was eight years old in 1884, I discovered that the native American world was damaged by the mother's tears. Her lips were hard and bitter. The hatred of Zitkala-Sa's mother's Caucasian American shadowed on a happy day. Zitkala-Sa's father is a white Indian agent, a man named Fitker, Zitkala-Sa and her mother abandoned. The same is true of the historical confusion of the collapse of American Indian culture.

ZITKALA - SHA (GERTRUDE SIMMONS BONNIN) (1876-1938) Writers, musicians, and NATIVE A American activist Gertrude Simmons Bonnin, or Zitkala - Ša (red bird) is Yankton Sioux, he talks about Nakota DIALECT and Lakota I have a name She was born in the same year as Little Big Horn, Pine Ridge Reserve in South Dakota. Her mother (Ellen Tate Iyohinwin / Reaching for the Wind) was Yankton Sioux, and her biological father was a white man named Fairkel and threw out his family. Her mother got married to another white man named Simmons. Bonnin was proposed to remain in the Siou tradition, but in her eighth year, despite her mother 's opposition, she went to White Institute of Quaka School of Education in Indiana went. After spending three years in Indiana, after four years' appointment she returned to the white school and finished studying. Bonnin studied at Earlham College of Quaker College, Indiana. Bonin's intention to this equality -

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As Zitkala Sä (Yankton, 1876 - 1938), Gertrude Simmons Bonnin made a speech at Christian's rhetoric in the award-winning student speech "Side by Side" (1896). Bonnin's life work is largely known for her autobiographical work, but her life work is based on speaking for a group of women in the 1920s and publicly witnessing political issues. She is said to be an excellent spokesperson for political compatriots of the American Indian Association. Following the Occam and Apex speech, there are ministers like Sherman Coolidge. Speech continues today as a living tradition of indigenous peoples, formed by political discourse, evangelism, and oral poetry and novel written by Indian writers.