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LARGE PRINT EDITION. Combining personal experience with traditional storytelling, Zitkála-Šá reflects on her life as a young woman raised on the Yankton Indian Reservation in South Dakota and educated at a Quaker school in Indiana. Whether remembering her mother, reflecting on the importance of legends, or recalling her first time making coffee, Zitkála-Šá, in American Indian Stories, uses her voice to elevate her people.

LARGE PRINT EDITION. Old Indian Legends (1901) is a collection of traditional stories from Yankton Dakota writer Zitkála-sá. Published while Zitkála-sá was just beginning her career as an artist and activist, Old Indian Legends collects fourteen traditional legends and stories passed down through Sioux oral tradition. Intending to keep the stories or her people alive, Zitkála-sá popularized and protected these cultural treasures for generation...

In the mythology of the Lakota and other Oceti Sakowin peoples, Iktomi is a spider-trickster spirit and cultural hero. In the vast wilderness of the American Midwest, Iktomi experiences a series of humorous and instructive trials that illuminate humanity’s relationship with nature. In Old Indian Legends, Zitkála-Šá uses her voice and expansive traditional knowledge to elevate the stories of her people.

Combining personal experience with traditional storytelling, Zitkála-Šá reflects on her life as a young woman raised on the Yankton Indian Reservation in South Dakota and educated at a Quaker school in Indiana. Whether remembering her mother, reflecting on the importance of legends, or recalling her first time making coffee, Zitkála-Šá, in American Indian Stories, uses her voice to elevate her people.