The Life and Legacy of Zitkala-Ša - with Dr. Julianne Newmark

Breaking Down Patriarchy

Amy McPhie Allebest

History, Society & Culture, Education

4.9 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2024

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Amy is joined by Dr. Julianne Newmark to discuss the book Red Bird, Red Power: The Life and Legacyof Zitkala-Ša by Tad Lewandowski and dive deep into the story of author, activist, and artist Zitkala-Ša.

Dr. Julianne Newmark is the Director of Technical & Professional Communication and Assistant Chair for Core Writing at the University of New Mexico. As a researcher, she focuses on usability/UX/UCD and TPC pedagogy. She also teaches, conducts research, and publishes in Indigenous Studies, particularly concerning early-20th-century Native activist writers’ rhetorically impactful bureaucratic writing, particularly in Bureau of Indian Affairs contexts. In recent years, she has received multiple grants to fund archival research for this project, including grants from CCCC/NCTE and the American Philosophical Society. Her second monograph is provisionally titled "Reports of Agency: Retrieving Indigenous Professional Communication in Dawes Era Indian Bureau Documents.” Her 2015 book The Pluralist Imagination from East to West in American Literature was published by University of Nebraska Press. She is Editor-in-Chief of Xchanges, a Writing Studies ejournal.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Breaking Down Patriarchy. I'm Amy McPhee All the Best. Today we're going to start with a story that will take a couple of minutes to tell before I introduce our guest. The story is told in the book Red Bird, Red Power, The Life and Legacy of Zichkala Shah by Tad Lewandowski. In the early spring of 1896, a young woman from the Yankton
0:23.6	Sioux Reservation in South Dakota ascended the stage of the English Opera House in Indianapolis
0:29.0	to represent Erlham College in the 22nd annual Indiana State Oratorical Contest. She assumed that
0:36.9	she had very little chance of winning, but still
0:39.0	she spent the night before rewriting and reformulating her thoughts. During her harried last-minute
0:45.3	alterations and the racial slurs she heard shouted at her as she took the podium, she delivered
0:51.3	a remarkable speech.
0:58.7	America is a nation of free men and free institutions, she said.
1:04.5	Among its rivers, mountains and lakes, in its stately forests and on its broad prairies,
1:09.2	millions of toiling sovereigns have established gigantic enterprises,
1:12.8	great factories, commercial highways, and have developed fruitful farms and productive minds. The ennobling architecture of its churches, schools, and
1:18.9	benevolent institutions, its municipal greatness, keeping pace with social progress, its scholars,
1:25.0	statesmen, authors, and divines, giving expression and force to the religious
1:30.2	and humanitarian zeal of a great people. All these reveal a marvelous progress. Yet just as soon as she
1:39.7	had constructed this triumphant vision of America, the young woman erased it.
1:46.0	But see, she entreated, the tide of time rolls back 400 years.
1:51.9	The generations of men of all nations who have developed this civilization in America
1:56.7	returned to the bosom of the old world.
2:00.2	Myriad merchantmen, fleets and armaments shrink and disappear from the ocean.
2:05.3	The fleet of discovery, bearing under the flag of Spain, the figure of Columbus,
2:09.9	recedes beyond the tractless sea.
2:12.8	America is one great wilderness again.
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