Updated: 22 Feb 2021, 12:23 GROUNDBREAKING Indigenous author and activist Zitkala-Ša lived and worked in two different worlds. The renowned suffragist and voting rights activist was born in Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota, in 1876 - the year that the Sioux defeated Custer, she liked to remind people. 5 On February 22, 2021, Google Doodles mark the 145th birthday of writer, musician, teacher, composer, and suffragist Zitkala-Ša, a member of the Yankton Sioux Tribe of South Dakota Who was Zitkala-Sa? Throughout her life she actively opposed the “Americanization” of Indigenous American culture. She was raised by her mother and aunts after her father, a man of French descent, abandoned the family.