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Zitkala Sa

Your search for information on Zitkala Sa (Gertrude Simmons Bonnin), and her book American Indian Stories, can include books, periodical articles, online databases, and authoritative Internet resources.

Books

Use the Library Catalog to find books by and about Zitkala Sa and her work. You can search by author, title, subject, or keyword.

For books by your author, choose Author Search and type the last name first. Find biographical and critical material by doing a Subject Search and also type the last name first, for example:

Zitkala Sa

Zitkala eSa

Some additional Subject Headings are:

Yankton Indians - Biography  
Indians of North America - Social Conditions  

The reference books listed below can be used to gather biographical and critical information about authors and their works. Use these books, as well as the databases GaleNet Literature Resource Center and GaleNet Discovering Collection, as a starting point for your research. By using these sources you will become better acquainted with your author and work. You will then be ready to conduct more comprehensive literary research by using the online catalog, journal and magazine databases, and authoritative Internet sites. Reference books, databases, and Internet sites use variations of this author’s name:

Zitkala Sa

  

Bonnin, Gertrude

  

Simmons, Gertrude

  

Biographical Sources - Reference Books

Contemporary Authors

Reference PN771 .C6

Volume 150, page 58

 

Native American Women: A Biographical Dictionary

Reference E98 .W8 B38 2001 (Page 42)

Notable Native Americans

Reference E89 .N67 1995 (Page 42)

   

Critical Sources - Reference Books

Dictionary of Native American Literature

Reference PM155 .D53 1994 (Page303)

  

Native American Women Writers

Reference PS153 .I52 N38 1998

Native North American Literature

Reference PS508 .I5 N38 1994 (Page 169)

    

About the Times – Reference Books

American Eras

Reference E169.1 .A471979

Volume 6, pages 200, 306

  

Encyclopedia of Racism in the United States

Reference E184 .A1 E773 2005

Volume 2, page 290; Volume 3, page 681

Racial and Ethnic Relations in America

Reference E49 .R33 2000 (Page 709)

  

Voices of Multicultural America: Notable Speeches Delivered by African, Asian, Hispanic, and Native Americans, 1790-1995

Reference PS663 .M55 V64 1996 (Page 61)

Journal Articles

Journal and magazines usually provide the most current information on a topic.  Journal articles are more scholarly or professional while magazine articles tend to be shorter and more general.  Newspaper articles, while not usually scholarly or professional, can give you the most current news and some additional facts on your topic. 

To find articles on your topic, use one of the online databases listed below.  These databases usually provide full-text articles on almost every topic.  Conduct your search in these databases by using subject headings and keywords similar to those you used to locate books.

Gale Databases
 Project Muse
 EbscoHost Literary Reference Center
Ethnic News Watch
Gender Watch

For remote access to the library databases, see E-Resource Login & Searching Options.

For historical research, the Library also has print indexes that must be used to find older articles, generally anything published before 1985.

Internet Sites

The Internet can be a valuable source for supplementing the information you have gathered from books and periodicals. It is important that you evaluate the information you get from the Internet to determine if it is reliable and useful to your research. A few Internet sites that may be useful are listed here.

Native Authors – Gertrude Bonnin, Zitkala Sha
 http://www.kstrom.net/isk/stories/authors/bonnin.html

Gertrude Bonnin (Zitkala-Sa)
 http://www.georgetown.edu/faculty/bassr/heath/syllabuild/iguide/bonnin.html

Voices from the Gaps – Women Artists and Writers of Color – Gertrude Simmons Bonnin
 http://voices.cla.umn.edu/vg/Bios/entries/bonnin_gertrude_simmons_zitkalasa.html

 

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