Paying tribute to Yankton Dakota writer, musician, and activist Zitkála-Šá (b.1876), this publication is structured through a series of scores for thirteen contemporary female Indigenous performing artists: Laura Ortman, Cheryl L’Hirondelle, Suzanne Kite, Barbara Croall, Jacqueline Wilson, Autumn Chacon, Heidi Senungetuk, Ange Loft, Joy Harjo, Carmina Escobar, Olivia Shortt, Candice Hopkins, and Buffy Sainte-Marie. For Zitkála-Šá is supplemented by texts by each artist and a contextualizing essay by Chacon.

For Zitkála-Šá is co-published by Art Metropole and New Documents and coincides with Chacon’s work at the 2022 Whitney Biennial.

Details
• Publisher: Art Metropole, New Documents
• Size: 24.1 × 33.7 cm
• 128 pp