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Changing Scholarly Interpretations of Gertrude Bonnin (Zitkala-Ša)
2019
The Yankton Sioux writer and activist Gertrude Bonnin (1876-1938), better known by her Lakota name, Zitkala-Ša (Red Bird), was perhaps the most prominent Native American woman of the early twentieth century. In her writings, she consistently overturned conventions of language and meaning to subvert and criticize the American discourse of civilization. Bonnin’s use of English as a tool of resistance has invited misrepresentations and misunderstandings. Criticism can be distilled into three interpretive frameworks: liminal, assimilationist and bicultural. Liminal scholarship focuses on Bonnin’s 1900 semi-autobiography for the Atlantic Monthly, which laments the author’s separation from her bi…
Gertrude Bonnin on Sexual Morality
2021
This paper examines attitudes to sexual morality held by the Yankton Dakota author and activist Gertrude Bonnin (1876–1938), better known by her penname Zitkála-Šá (Red Bird in Lakota). Bonnin’s concerns encompass several themes: the victimization of Indian women, disintegration of Native courtship rituals, sexual threats posed by peyote use, and the predatory nature of Euro-American men. This critique as a whole — in which a ‘white invasion,’ in her words, leads to a corruption of Native sexuality — sometimes produces inconsistencies, particularly regarding Bonnin’s statements on the alleged sexual perils of peyote. Her investigations into the Oklahoma guardianship scandals of the 1920s, h…
Speaking Back to the Murder State: Gertrude Bonnin’s California Writings and the “Little Matter of Genocide”
2017
Niniejszy artykuł zestawia książkę historyczną na temat dziejów stanu Kalifornia z połowy dziewiętnastego wieku pt. Murder State (2012 r.) autorstwa Brendana C. Lindseya z piśmiennictwem Gertrudy Bonnin dotyczącym Indian kalifornijskich opublikowanym w San Francisco Bulletin w 1922 r. B.C. Lindsay argumentuje, że wspierana przez państwo przemoc, która miała kluczowe znaczenie dla kolonizacji Kalifornii przez Amerykanów europejskiego pochodzenia, stanowiła akt ludobójstwa w myśl Konwencji ONZ z 1948 r., którego dopuszczono się przeciwko ludom autochtonicznym. Ludobójstwo to podszyte było rasizmem oraz żądzą zdobycia ziemi i zasobów, a dokonano go przy użyciu demokratycznych mechanizmów, któr…