Zitkala-Sa, (Lakota: “Red Bird”) birth name Gertrude Simmons, married name Gertrude Bonnin, (born February 22, 1876, Yankton Sioux Agency, South Dakota, U.S.—died January 26, 1938, Washington, D.C.), writer and reformer who strove to expand opportunities for Native Americans and to safeguard their cultures.
Zitkála-Šá also known by her missionary-given and later married name Gertrude Simmons Bonnin, was a Yankton Dakota writer, editor, translator, musician, educator, and political activist. She wrote several works chronicling her struggles with cultural identity and the pull between the majority culture in which she was educated
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They threatened to imprison him as well as kill him for going against the beliefs of the church
It meant that Northerners in free states were obligated, regardless of their feelings towards slavery, to turn escaped slaves who had made it North back over to their Southern masters.
Running away is considered a crime for people who are under 18.
Cristopher Mc Candless had a chaotic childhood,marked by a stormy relation between his parents,with a physically and mentally abusive condition,due to frequent differences throughout his parent´s marriage. He lived in a violent home,where his father beat and disparaged his mother, a dark reality that Christopher and his sister were forced to conceal.
His anger might be justified considering the repressed feelings during his childhood and adolescence but the final decision was somehow disproportioned and solved nothing.
