Gertrude Kasebier Photo, portrait of Zitkala Sa, Sioux writer, activist, 1898

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Offering a new Fine Art quality archival pigment reprint of this Gertrude Kasebier portrait of Zitkala Sa, a Sioux Indian and activist, 1898. This is a high quality print, unframed, approximately 8x10" on 8 1/2x11" archival fine art paper, suitable for matting, framing and display.
Kasebier (1852-1934) was one of the most influential American photographers of the early 20th Century. She was known for her evocative images of motherhood, her powerful portraits of Native Americans and her promotion of photography as a career for women.
Zitkala-Ša (1876–1938) (Dakota: pronounced zitkála-ša, which translates to "Red Bird"), also known by the missionary-given name Gertrude Simmons Bonnin, was a Sioux writer, editor, musician, teacher and political activist. She wrote several works chronicling her youthful struggles with identity and pulls between the majority culture and her Native American heritage. Her later books in English brought traditional Native American stories to a widespread white readership for one of the first times.
With William F. Hanson, Bonnin co-composed the first American Indian opera, The Sun Dance (composed in romantic style based on Ute and Sioux themes), which premiered in 1913. She founded the National Council of American Indians in 1926 to lobby for rights to American citizenship and civil rights. She served as its president until her death in 1938.
From the Fine Art Los Angeles Early Masters Collection, a unique group of fine art photos from the pioneers of photography.
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