Ztkala-Sa was a Sioux Indian. She was one of the first to write down the stories of her tribe. The first group of stories is autobiographical. At eight she leaves on the Iron Horse to go to school in the East against her mother's objections. She l...

According to Wikipedia: "The indigenous peoples of the Americas are the pre-Columbian inhabitants of the Americas, their descendants, and many ethnic groups who identify with those peoples. They are often also referred to as Native Americans, Firs...

According to Wikipedia: "Gertrude Simmons Bonnin (February 22, 1876 - January 26, 1938), better known by her pen name, Zitkala-Sa (Lakota, which translates to Red Bird), was a Native American writer, editor, musician, teacher and political activis...

Edna Pontellier, a young wife and mother, refuses to be caged by married and domestic life and claims for herself moral and erotic freedom. Through careful, subtle changes of style, Kate Chopin shows Edna's transformation-and its tragic consequenc...