Born in 1876, Zitkála-Šá was a poet, short story writer, musician, activist, member of the Yankton Dakota Sioux and co-founder of the National Council of American Indians. In her 1898 poem “Iris of ...

She addressed gender issues in her work, and was a female poet at a time when the area was dominated by men. Among Rossetti’s best known poems is this short work about one of the plants most ...