Unladylike2020: Unsung Women Who Changed America Season 1 Episode 25 Zitkála-Šá: Composer, Author & Indigenous Rights Activist

Zitkála-Šá, aka Gertrude Simmons Bonnin, (1876-1938) co-composed and wrote the libretto for the first American Indian opera, The Sun Dance Opera, authored autobiographical essays for Harper's and The Atlantic Monthly exposing the pressures American Indians faced to assimilate into European American culture, and co-founded the National Council of American Indians to lobby for indigenous rights.