Zitkála-Šá — "The School Days of an Indian Girl" with Jessi Haley and Erin Marie Lynch

Send us a text At the age of eight, Gertrude Simmons Bonnin (later known by her pen name Zitkála-Šá) left her Yankton Dakota reservation to attend a missionary boarding school for Native Americans, a harsh and abusive experience about which she eventually wrote a series of articles published in The Atlantic Monthly. Jessi Haley, editorial director of Cita Press (which just published a free anthology of the author’s work) joins Yankton Dakota poet Erin Marie Lynch to discuss how Zitkála-Šá’s sense of cultural displacement impacted her life and literary output. Mentioned in this episode: Free edition of Planted in a Strange Earth: Selected Writings of Zitkála-Šá by Cita Press Cita Press’s Substack newsletter on Zitkála-Šá Removal Acts by Erin Marie Lynch Zitkála-Šá Ella Cara Deloria Standing Rock Sioux Tribe Yankton Dakota people Sugarcane 2024 documentary Air/Light magazine Joe Biden’s October 2024 federal apology to Indigenous Americans Carlisle Indian Industrial School Richard Henry Pratt Earlham College The Sun Dance Opera PBS’s “Unladylike” documentary episode on Zitkála-Šá Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann  “Oklahoma’s Poor Rich Indians: An Orgy of Graft and Exploitation of the Five Civilized Tribes, Legalized Robbery” by Zitkála-Šá P. Jane Hafen’s Support the show For episodes and show notes, visit: LostLadiesofLit.com Discuss episodes on our Facebook Forum. Follow us on instagram @lostladiesoflit. Follow Kim on twitter @kaskew. Sign up for our newsletter: LostLadiesofLit.com Email us: Contact — Lost Ladies of Lit Podcast