Old Indian Legends
Old Indian Legends ist eine Sammlung von 14 Sioux-Geschichten, die von der Yankton-Dakota-Schriftstellerin Zitkala-Ša wiedererzählt werden.[1] Diese Sammlung wurde 1901 veröffentlicht. Da Zitkala-Ša besorgt über die Assimilation der Kinder ihres Stammes war, wollte sie die traditionellen Geschichten ihres Volkes erhalten. Die ersten fünf Legenden handeln von einem unglücklichen Trickster-Charakter, eine Spinnenfee namens Iktomi.
Weblinks
- Text der Old Indian Legends bei sacred-texts.com (englisch)
Einzelnachweise
- ↑ Lorna Sage: The Cambridge Guide to Women’s Writing in English. Cambridge University Press, 1999 (google.com [abgerufen am 11. Oktober 2018]).
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In addition to photographing the Sioux performers sent by Buffalo Bill Cody to her studio, Käsebier was able to arrange a portrait session with Zitkala Sa, "Red Bird," also known as Gertrude Simmons (1876-1938), a Yankton Sioux woman of Native American and white mixed ancestry. She was born on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, like many of the Sioux traveling with the Wild West show. She was educated at reservation schools, the Carlisle Indian School, Earlham College in Indiana, and the Boston Conservatory of Music. Zitkala Sa became an accomplished author, musician, composer, and dedicated worker for the reform of United States Indian policies.
Käsebier photographed Zitkala Sa in tribal dress and western clothing, clearly identifying the two worlds in which this woman lived and worked. In many of the images, Zitkala Sa holds her violin or a book, further indicating her interests. Käsebier experimented with changing backdrops, including a Victorian floral print, and photographic printing. She used the painterly gum-bichromate process for several of these images, adding increased texture and softer tones to the photographs.