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Book SynopsisTells the story of one of the most influential - and controversial - American Indian activists of the twentieth century. Tadeusz Lewandowski offers the first full-scale biography of the woman whose passionate commitment to improving the lives of her people propelled her to the forefront of Progressive-era reform movements.
Trade ReviewIn this definitive biography, Tadeusz Lewandowski carefully chronicles the challenges that Gertrude Simmons Bonnin (Zitkala-Ša), her Dakota Nation, and many Native Americans endured during her lifetime.
Red Bird, Red Power is a must-read for those interested in this remarkable woman and the history of Native and non-Native relations during the first half of the twentieth century."" - A. LaVonne Brown Ruoff, author of
American Indian Literatures: An Introduction, Bibliographic Review, and Selected Bibliography""
Red Bird, Red Power offers a complex portrait of a woman whose tenacious commitment to Native peoples produced unsettling alliances and political stances. Detailing the missing, misunderstood, and lesser-known periods of Gertrude Bonnin's life of advocacy and activism, Tadeusz Lewandowski provides an engrossing account of how she and a cohort of Native and non-Native people challenged and worked to change federal Indian policies in the first decades of the twentieth century. This book asks us to heed more fully the efforts of Native activists negotiating a difficult yet pivotal period of Indigenous political formation."" - Susan Bernardin, coauthor of
Trading Gazes: Euro-American Women Photographers and Native North Americans, 1880 - 1940
