Zitkála-Šá — "The School Days of an Indian Girl" with Jessi Haley and Erin Marie Lynch

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At the age of eight, Gertrude Simmons Bonnin (later known by her pen name Zitkála-Šá) left her Yankton Dakota reservation to attend a missionary boarding school for Native Americans, a harsh and abusive experience about which she eventually wrote a series of articles published in The Atlantic Monthly. Jessi Haley, editorial director of Cita Press (which just published a free anthology of the author’s work) joins Yankton Dakota poet Erin Marie Lynch to discuss how Zitkála-Šá’s sense of cultural displacement impacted her life and literary output.

Mentioned in this episode:

Free edition of Planted in a Strange Earth: Selected Writings of Zitkála-Šá (citapress.org/planted-in-a-strange-earth-selec…) by Cita Press

Cita Press’s Substack newsletter (citapress.substack.com/p/planted-in-a-strange-…) on Zitkála-Šá

Removal Acts (graywolfpress.org/books/removal-acts) by Erin Marie Lynch

Zitkála-Šá (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zitkala-Sa)

Ella Cara Deloria (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ella_Cara_Deloria)

Standing Rock Sioux Tribe (standingrock.org)

Yankton Dakota (mnhs.org/fortsnelling/learn/native-americans/d…) people

Sugarcane (films.nationalgeographic.com/sugarcane) 2024 documentary

Air/Light (airlightmagazine.org) magazine

Joe Biden’s October 2024 federal apology (narf.org/united-states-apology-boarding-schools) to Indigenous Americans

Carlisle Indian Industrial School (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlisle_Indian_Industri…)

Richard Henry Pratt (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Henry_Pratt)

Earlham College (earlham.edu)

The Sun Dance Opera (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sun_Dance_Opera)

PBS’s “Unladylike” documentary episode (pbs.org/video/zitkala-sa-american-indian-compo…) on Zitkála-Šá

Killers of the Flower Moon (amazon.com/Killers-Flower-Moon-Osage-Murders/d…) by David Grann

“Oklahoma’s Poor Rich Indians: An Orgy of Graft and Exploitation of the Five Civilized Tribes, Legalized Robbery” (dp.la/item/72b44736ed2704aff95033d47b56a588) by Zitkála-Šá

P. Jane Hafen’s full PBS interview (pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/archive/interview…) on Zitkála-Šá

Oral History Project (boardingschoolhealing.org/oral-history-project) from the National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition

Dreams and Thunder (nebraskapress.unl.edu/bison-books/978080329919…) by P. Jane Hafen

Help Indians Help Themselves: The Later Writings of Gertrude Simmons Bonnin (Zitkála-Sá) (ttupress.org/9781682830451/help-indians-help-t…) by P. Jane Hafen

Free edition of Gertrude Stein’s Tender Buttons (citapress.org/tender-buttons) by Cita Press

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