Dreams And Thunder

by Sa, Zitkala

• ISBN13: 9780803299191
• ISBN10: 0803299192
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-06-01
• Publisher: Bison Books

Summary

Zitkala-Å a (Red Bird) (1876-1938), also known as Gertrude Simmons Bonnin, was one of the best-known and most influential Native Americans of the twentieth century. Born on the Yankton Sioux Reservation, she remained true to her indigenous heritage as a student at the Boston Conservatory and a teacher at the Carlisle Indian School, as an activist in turn attacking the Carlisle School, as an artist celebrating Native stories and myths, and as an active member of the Society of American Indians in Washington DC All these currents of Zitkala-Å a's rich life come together in this book, which presents her previously unpublished stories, rare poems, and the libretto of The Sun Dance Opera.Zitkala-Å a is the author of American Indian Stories and Iktomi and the Ducks and Other Sioux Stories, both available in Bison Books editions. P. Jane Hafen (Taos Pueblo) is an associate professor of English at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and the coeditor of A Great Plains Reader, available in a Bison Books edition.

Author Biography

Zitkala-Ša is the author of American Indian Stories and Iktomi and the Ducks and Other Sioux Stories, both available in Bison Books editions. P. Jane Hafen (Taos Pueblo) is an associate professor of English at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and the coeditor of A Great Plains Reader, available in a Bison Books edition.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	vii
Acknowledgments	ix
Introduction	xiii
Stories	1	(102)
The Buffalo Woman	7	(6)
When the Buffalo Herd Went West	13	(8)
Buzzard Skin and the Sea Monsters	21	(6)
The Hawk Woman	27	(8)
The Boy and the Rainbow	35	(6)
The Stone Boy and the Grizzly	41	(14)
The Making of Thunder People	55	(10)
Zicha, the Squirrel, and Iktomi	65	(6)
The Witch Woman	71	(6)
Squirrel Man and His Double	77	(10)
Child Dancer, Pi-Yeh-Kah-Nump---Transfigured	87	(6)
Search for Bear Claws, the Lost School Boy	93	(4)
Prayer of Pe-Snija---Shriveled-Top	97	(2)
Dreams	99	(4)
Poems	103	(20)
Ballad	107	(6)
Iris of Life	113	(2)
The Indian's Awakening	115	(4)
The Red Man's America	119	(2)
A Sioux Woman's Love for Her Grandchild	121	(2)
The Sun Dance Opera	123	(30)
Overture and Prologue	131	(1)
Act I	131	(6)
Act II	137	(1)
Act III	138	(6)
Act IV	144	(6)
Sunset March	150	(1)
Act V: Sun Dance Arena Finale	151	(2)
Notes	153	(8)
Bibliography	161	(4)
Writings on Zitkala-Sa	165