It feels fitting for me to share this next women's quarter during National Native American Heritage Month.
I'll be on the lookout for this beautiful 2024 quarter on Zitkala-Ša. Also known by her Anglicized and married name, Gertrude Simmons Bonnin, she wrote several works chronicling her struggles with cultural identity, and the pull between the majority culture in which she was educated, and the Dakota culture into which she was born and raised. She was a writer, editor, translator, musician, educator, and political activist. In June 1895, when Zitkala-Ša was awarded her diploma from the White's Indiana Manual Labor Institute she gave a speech on the inequality of women's rights which was praised highly.
A collection of her written works, some published posthumously, can be found here: Zitkala on Amazon. Like the other women highlighted in quarters that I've studied out, she had a Venusian crater named "Bonnin" in her honor.