Larissa FastHorse is the first Native American woman to bring a play to Broadway, but it was Zitkala Sa (the real-life Red Bird on whom the character of Red Dove is based) who brought the first show—The Sundance Opera–to be performed there, although it was her collaborator William Hanson who got the credit.
https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3027&context=greatplainsquarterly
https://orchestraonenyc.org/composer-spotlight-zitkala-sa/gertrude-simmons
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