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Sun Dance Operah

Posted: Mon Feb 22, 2021 9:33 pm
by Angel
https://wams.nyhistory.org/modernizing- ... itkala-sa/

Saw the note on Google commemorating Zitkala-Sa today, anyone here know more to her story? Was it LDS missionaries who took her and cut her hair off?

Re: Sun Dance Operah

Posted: Tue Feb 23, 2021 9:26 pm
by moksha
I just read that article yesterday after Zitkala-Sa was featured on the Google doodle. She worked as a teacher at a Utah Amerindian Reservation school. I don't think she was ever captured by Mormon missionaries during their raiding parties.

Re: Sun Dance Operah

Posted: Sat Feb 27, 2021 8:19 pm
by Angel
She married William Hanson, a music professor at Brigham Young University, spent time in Utah, seems like she would have crossed the church at some point. Thanks!

Re: Sun Dance Operah

Posted: Sat Feb 27, 2021 11:28 pm
by Cnsl1
I pretty sure she was married to Raymond Bonnin.

She worked with William Hanson, but was never married to him.