Zitkala-Sa
Zitkala-Sa was Yankton Dakota Sioux, separated from her family and forced to attend a white-run boarding school, where she suffered the trauma of government-mandated assimilation.










“I was not wholly conscious of myself, but was more keenly alive to the fire within. It was as if I were the activity, and my hands and feet were only experiments for my spirit to work upon.”
— Zitkala Sa, author, musician, composer and dedicated worker
for the reform of United States Indian policies