Lakota author and activist Zitkála-Šá pictured in 1898. As a girl, she was forcibly sheared. As an adult, she wrote of the experience: “I cried aloud, shaking my head all the while until I felt the cold blades of the scissors against my neck, and heard them gnaw off one of my thick braids. Then I lost my spirit…now I was only one of many little animals driven by a herder.” Photo courtesy of Smithsonian Institution