Zitkala-Sa

Zitkala-Ša, also Zitkála-Šá, was a Yankton Dakota writer, editor, translator, musician, educator, and political activist. She was also known by her Anglicized and married name, Gertrude Simmons Bonnin. She wrote several works chronicling her struggles with cultural identity, and the pull between the majority culture in which she was educated, and the Dakota culture into which she was born and raised. Her later books were among the first works to bring traditional Native American stories to a widespread white English-speaking readership.

22 February 1876

Born on the same birth day (22 February): Andy Gray (footballer, born 1964) • Charles McLean Andrews • Dick Van Arsdale • Elfrid Payton (basketball) • Ilya Samsonov • Morley Callaghan • Nam Joo-hyuk • Psicosis II • Sergio Romero • Steve Barber • Ted Kennedy • Tommy Aaron

Born in the same month (February 1876): 13th Dalai Lama • Arthur Edward Moore • Constantin Brâncuși • Ernie McLea • Fred Buelow • G. M. Trevelyan • Henry Blogg • Paula Modersohn-Becker