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Help Indians Help Themselves - The Later Writings of Gertrude Simmons Bonnin (Zitkala-Ã…Â a) (Hardcover)
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Help Indians Help Themselves - The Later Writings of Gertrude Simmons Bonnin (Zitkala-Ã…Â a) (Hardcover)
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Zitkala-Å a, also known as Gertrude Simmons Bonnin, was born
on the Yankton Sioux reservation in 1876 and went on to become one
of the most influential American Indian writer/activists of the
twentieth century. "Help Indians Help Themselves": The Later
Writings of Gertrude Simmons Bonnin (Zitkala-Å a) is a
critical collection of primary documents written by Bonnin who was
principally known for the memoir of her boarding school experience,
"Help Indians Help Themselves" expands the published work of
Zitkala-Å a, adding insight to a life of writing and political
activism on behalf of American Indians in the early twentieth
century. Edited by P. Jane Hafen, "Help Indians Help Themselves"
documents Bonnin's passion for justice in Indian America and
outlines the broad scope of her life's work. In the American Indian
Magazine, the publication of the Society of American Indians, and
through her work for the National Council of American Indians,
Bonnin developed her emphasis, as Hafen writes, on "resistance,
tribal nationalism, land rights and call for civil rights." "Help
Indians Help Themselves" also brings to light Bonnin's letters,
speeches, and congressional testimony, which coincide with
important developments of the relationship between American Indians
and the U.S. federal government. Legislation such as the
Citizenship Act of 1924, the Meriam Report of 1928, and the Indian
Reorganization Act of 1934 is reflected through the work collected
in "Help Indians Help Themselves". In these writings, in
newsletters, and in voluminous correspondence—most of which have
never before been published—Bonnin advocates tirelessly for "the
Indian Cause.
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