Zintka!
Lost Bird of Wounded Knee — Zintkála Nuni
by Brad Colerick & Scott Feldmann
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Pub Date Sep 27 2024 | Archive Date Jan 15 2025
Description
48 pages include: illustrated lyrics as ledger art, short bio of Zintka, historic timeline, song lyrics and lead sheet plus a brief description of ledger art genre. QR Code links to short film online.
A true story of "found & lost". . . and found again. Zintka tells the troubled tale of a Native American girl caught between two worlds, accepted by neither. A Lakota (Sioux) baby and her mother who were fleeing for safety became victims in the Wounded Knee Massacre of 1890. The baby was found four days after a South Dakota blizzard, alive by the warmth of her mother's dead body. She was adopted by a prominent soldier and his famous suffragette wife to be raised in their white, high-society circles. Zintka was not accepted there because of racial prejudices in the era of forced assimilation. Neither was she was accepted by her own people when she sought out her roots, partly because she did not speak their language.
Named "Lost Bird," (Zintkála Nuni in Lakota,) at the moment she was separated from her Lakota caregivers, she was chronicled in newspapers from her discovery to her death. Zintka attempted to succeed in show business, joining Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, San Francisco's vaudeville circuit, and as an extra in Hollywood silent films. Zintka died in the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1920 and was buried in a pauper's grave in Hanford, California. Finally, in 1991 her story was discovered through efforts of her biographer Renée Sansom Flood. Lakota leadership from the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota ceremoniously reburied her at the Wounded Knee Monument, near the mass grave of the disaster, which included her birth mother.
The name "Lost Bird" came to describe Native American children adopted off the reservation by non-Indians after the publication of her biography, "Lost Bird: Spirit of the Lakota" (Scribner, 1995).
A Note From the Publisher
This is a hybrid format book. It starts as a graphic novel and leads into essays on the subject, a forgotten, resilient and rediscovered historic Lakota woman. It includes a lead sheet so musicians can learn the song. It contains a QR code for viewing the 6-minute video on which it is based, which cannot be publicly released until the film festival tour is complete, in January 2025.
Advance Praise
“A poignant multimedia journey that beautifully combines art, music, and the written word to detail a long-overlooked life.”
— Kirkus Reviews
"A BookLife Review Editor’s Pick for outstanding quality called out as a: “Stunning artistic recreation of Zintkála Nuni’s story.”
“I love the book… it tells such an important story with empathy and precision.”
— Mary Pipher, Ph.D., author of "Reviving Ophelia", "Women Rowing North", and other books including four New York Times bestsellers
“Your use of photographs, ledger art and treatment of illustrations is very sophisticated and dynamic.”
- Arthur Amiotte, Oglala Lakota artist, Art Historian, Custer, SD
“. . . a heartbreaking and moving story and I'm glad to have met her.”
- Melanie Solar, Librarian, Academic, University of Manitoba
“Zintka mashes together Brad Colerick’s haunting, thought-stimulating song with Scott Feldmann’s dancing, juxtaposed visual imagery into a compelling portrayal.”
— Steve Fjeldsted, Director of Library, Arts, and Culture, South Pasadena Public Library 2006 - 2019; previously County Library Director in Central, and Northern California
“You have an amazing way of presenting history, and that needs to be shared broadly!”
— Chris Hochstetler, Executive Director - Stuhr Museum of the Prairie Pioneer
“WELL, WELL, WELL!! This is one of the best and artistic films on the subject of forgotten American Indians that I have ever seen. Congratulations on this excellent film.”
- Marc Wanamaker, Founder of Bison Archives; renown historian, archivist, and expert in film history.
Marketing Plan
Book launches at various film festivals as "Lost Bird (Zintkála Nuni)" is selected and screened. Winner at Sedona, Black Hills and Grand Mesa. Official Selection at Pasadena, Omaha, Ridgway and South Dakota festivals. More are yet to be announced.
Showcased at the Stuhr Museum, Grand Island, NE and Niles Essaay Silent Film Museum, Niles, CA. Book is for sale at Akta Lakota Museum and Prairie Edge Trading Post i South Dakota. Film already screened at The Ross at University of Nebraska, (as prelude to War Pony by Riley Keough and Gina Gammell) ,The Fountain Theatre in Messilla, NM, the Mary D. Fisher Theatre in Sedona, AZ and with Red Fever in Niles CA.
Screenings and book signings always invite Native American speakers from the locality.
Available Editions
| EDITION | Hardcover |
| ISBN | 9798218439644 |
| PRICE | $29.99 (USD) |
| PAGES | 48 |
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