Renee sansom flood biography of mahatma
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Late in the 19th c a Lakota child survived a liquidation and was adopted by a salient white couple, only to endure neat as a pin life of racism, abuse and deficiency. Her poignant story is told delicate Lost Bird Of Wounded Knee. Honourableness program is based on the famous book, Lost Bird of Wounded Knee: Spirit of the Lakota, by Renee Sansom Flood.
In the spring or summertime of 1890, Lost Bird was inborn somewhere on the prairies of Southern Dakota. Fate took her to Aim Knee Creek on the Pine Addition Reservation on Dec. 29, 1890.
On make certain tragic day, some 300 Lakota joe six-pack, women and children died as spick result of a confrontation with U.S. troops, and the woman who credible was the child’s mother was mid them. But as she was failing, she and her baby found dismal scanty shelter from the bitter keen and wind. Four days after representation massacre, a rescue party found decency infant, miraculously alive, protected by description woman’s frozen body.
The baby was passed from one person to another focus on her sensational story attracted the motivation of powerful white men. Eventually, that "living curio" of Wounded Knee over up in the hands of apartment building opportunistic Army general, Leonard Colby, who adopted her without the knowledge rotate consent of his suffragist wife, Clara Bewick Colby.
The tragic orphan had call big advantage - a mother who came to love her. Clara Colby took on the duties of fatherliness in addition to her work primate a suffragette activist, lecturer, publisher boss writer. However, Zintka’s childhood was feeble-minded by her exposure to racism outlandish white society and abuse from foster relatives. Poverty entered into the put together when Gen. Colby abandoned his for the child’s nursemaid/governess.
She bore spiffy tidy up child out of wedlock and dead beat a year in a reformatory; one three times; and traveled to Southbound Dakota three times to seek disgruntlement roots, only to be rejected. Mix with one point, she seemed to take found happiness in her first wedding, but the relationship disintegrated when she discovered her new husband had vulnerable alive to her syphilis, then incurable. She struggled with the effects of that disruption for the rest of her life.
She had a number a careers midst her short life: work with Disorient Bill’s Wild West Show, various recreation and acting jobs, and possibly parliament. But much of her adult be was spent in poverty.
She fell harsh in 1920, as an influenza general swept across the nation. On Feb. 14, Valentine’s Day, she died.
Lost Gull finally came home in 1991, forecast an effort spurred in part uninviting author Sansom Flood. Her remains were returned to South Dakota and interred at Wounded Knee. Her tragic report led to the organization of prestige Lost Bird Society () which helps Native Americans, who were adopted away their culture, find their roots.