2009 Reading #85: The Flight of Red Bird
Books 1-10.
Books 11-20.
Books 21-30.
Books 31-40.
Books 41-50.
Books 51-60.
Books 61-70.
Books 71-80.
81. Elektra: Assassin by Frank Miller and Bill Sienkiewicz.
82. Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes From the American Indie Underground 1981-1991 by Michael Azerrad.
83. The Dakota or Sioux in Minnesota As They Were in 1834 by Samuel W. Pond.
84. The Last American Man by Elizabeth Gilbert.
85. The Flight of Red Bird: The Life of Zitkala-Sa by Doreen Rappaport. Biography--much of it reconstructed through the subject's own writings--of the Native American writer and political activist who lived from 1876-1938. Born on the Yankton Sioux Reservation in South Dakota, Zitkala-Sa (born Gertrude Simmons) was taken from her mother at the age of eight to be educated at a Quaker Mission School in Indiana. This was part of efforts to forcibly integrate the Native American population by removing children from their cultural and familial context, taking away their culture and replacing it with something like the mainstream. Much of the treatment that Rappaport and Zitkala-Sa describe is horrific and/or abusive. In later years Sa became a political activist, fighting for the rights of Native Americans through the National Council of American Indians (which she founded) and through her writing.
Books 11-20.
Books 21-30.
Books 31-40.
Books 41-50.
Books 51-60.
Books 61-70.
Books 71-80.
81. Elektra: Assassin by Frank Miller and Bill Sienkiewicz.
82. Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes From the American Indie Underground 1981-1991 by Michael Azerrad.
83. The Dakota or Sioux in Minnesota As They Were in 1834 by Samuel W. Pond.
84. The Last American Man by Elizabeth Gilbert.
85. The Flight of Red Bird: The Life of Zitkala-Sa by Doreen Rappaport. Biography--much of it reconstructed through the subject's own writings--of the Native American writer and political activist who lived from 1876-1938. Born on the Yankton Sioux Reservation in South Dakota, Zitkala-Sa (born Gertrude Simmons) was taken from her mother at the age of eight to be educated at a Quaker Mission School in Indiana. This was part of efforts to forcibly integrate the Native American population by removing children from their cultural and familial context, taking away their culture and replacing it with something like the mainstream. Much of the treatment that Rappaport and Zitkala-Sa describe is horrific and/or abusive. In later years Sa became a political activist, fighting for the rights of Native Americans through the National Council of American Indians (which she founded) and through her writing.