Part autobiographical and part folkloric, these essays and stories by the Lakota Zitkala-Sa, or "Red Bird"-the pen name of Native American writer and activist GERTRUDE SIMMONS BONNIN (1876-1938)-are renowned for being among the first works of contemporary Native American history, culture, and experience to come direct from a Native American, unedited and uninfluenced by outsiders.This 1921 collection-some of which originally appeared in magazines including The Atlantic Monthly and Harper's-includes:• "The School Days of an Indian Girl"• "An Indian Teacher Among Indians"• "The Great Spirit"• "The Soft-Hearted Sioux"• "A Warrior's Daughter"• "A Dream of Her Grandfather"• "The Widespread Enigma of Blue-Star Woman"• and more.