Zintkála Nuni
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Zintkála Nuni, alternatively 'Zintka Lanuni', was a Lakota Sioux woman who was a 4-month-old infant when she was found alive among the victims at the Wounded Knee Massacre.
Nuni's adoptive mother, pictured circa 1885 in Democratic Ideals; A Memorial Sketch of Clara B. Colby, died in 1916
Unidentified castmembers in a 1912 film-industry magazine advertisement for War on the Plains, The Indian Massacre, and The Battle of the Red Men
New York Motion Picture Company released The Battle of the Red Men in 1912 (one of several 101 Bison films about "stirring military life in the early days of the West, thrilling battle, whirlwind cavalry charge") among other titles including Blazing the Trail, The Deserter, Indian Massacre, Lieutenant's Last Fight, and War on the Plains
Zitkala-Sa
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Zitkala-Ša, also Zitkála-Šá, was a Yankton Dakota writer, editor, translator, musician, educator, and political activist. She was also known by her Anglicized and married name, Gertrude Simmons Bonnin. She wrote several works chronicling her struggles with cultural identity, and the pull between the majority culture in which she was educated, and the Dakota culture into which she was born and raised. Her later books were among the first works to bring traditional Native American stories to a widespread white English-speaking readership.
Zitkala-Ša with her violin in 1898
Zitkala-Ša, 1898, by Joseph Keiley
Zitkala-Ša, c. 1898, by Gertrude Käsebier