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Who Was Zitkala-Ša? Google Doodle Celebrates Indigenous American Writer and Activist

Who Was Zitkala-Ša? Google Doodle Celebrates Indigenous American Writer and Activist Newsweek 22/02/2021 Seren Morris © Chris Pappan/Google Doodle Zitkala-Ša is celebrated in today s Google Doodle, on what would have been her 145th birthday. Zitkala-Ša, writer, musician, teacher, composer, and suffragist, is celebrated in today s Google Doodle on what would have been her 145th birthday. She was dedicated to protecting and celebrating her heritage through arts and activism, at a time when the U.S. government did not consider Indigenous Americans real people. The Yankton Sioux Tribe of South Dakota (Ihanktonwan Dakota Oyate or People of the End Village ) member is depicted in artwork by Chris Pappan, an artist of Osage, Kaw, Cheyenne River Sioux, and European heritage.

Google Doodle celebrates writer and activist Zitkala-Sa

Indigenous artist Chris Pappan honours the creative and political achievements of the late Zitkála-Šá with Google Doodle

Gertrude Käsebie, Zitkála-Šá (around 1898) Photo: Gertrude Käsebier; National Museum of American History The writer, musician and political activist Zitkála-Šá (Yankton Sioux) who was born 22 February 1876 is honoured in today’s Google Doodle for her prolific creative and political achievements in an illustration created by the Chicago-based artist Chris Pappan (Kaw Nation, Osage and Cheyenne River Sioux). Zitkála-Šá, whose name means “Red Bird”, was born on the Yankton Indian Reservation in South Dakota to a Sioux mother and an estranged German-American father. She entered a Quaker mission school in Wabash, Indiana, aged eight, where she was given the name Gertrude Simmons.

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