In The Moment … October 22, 2020 Show 926 Hour 1
This year marks the 100th anniversary of women's suffrage, which means many Americans are discovering history in new and exciting ways. Who are the women who paved the way for the wave of women now going to the polls?
UNLADYLIKE2020 is a series of 26 short films and a one-hour documentary profiling diverse and little-known American women from the turn of the 20th century and contemporary women who follow in their footsteps. The series premiered in 2020 on PBS's American Masters.
One of the women featured in UNLADYLIKE2020 is Zitkala Sa, also known as Gertrude Simmons Bonnin. She was born in 1876 on the Yankton Sioux reservation in South Dakota. LIke many thousands of other young Native Americans, she was sent to boarding school, and experience that afected the rest of her life. she was a musician and became an activist, whose work was influential to the passage of the Indian Citizenship Act of 1924, which granted U.S. citizenship to American Indians.
In a partnership between SDPB and the South Dakota Festival of Books, I sat down with the series creator and executive producer Charlotte Mangin and Dr. P. Jane Hafen. Hafen is Professor Emerita in the English Department of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
First I asked Charlotte Mangin to tell UNLADYLIKE's origin story.
Watch the full interview here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzqW1JB8PAo
Arts, literature, and music reporting on SDPB is supported by the Northern State University School of Fine Arts. More information available at northern.edu
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