Ella Cara Deloria

Ella Cara Deloria
Aŋpétu Wašté Wiŋ, "Beautiful Day Woman"
Born(1889-01-31)January 31, 1889
White Swan district of the Yankton Indian Reservation, South Dakota
DiedFebruary 12, 1971(1971-02-12) (aged 82)
Wagner, South Dakota
EducationEducated at her father's mission school and All Saints Boarding School
Alma materOberlin College; B.Sc., Teachers College, Columbia University, 1915
Occupation(s)Educator, anthropologist, ethnographer, linguist, and novelist
Known forRecording Sioux oral history and legends; 1940 novel Waterlily; fluent in Dakota, Lakota, and Nakota dialects of Sioux, and Latin.[1]
Parent(s)Mary (Miriam) Sully Bordeaux Deloria and Philip Joseph Deloria
RelativesSister Susan Deloria; brother Vine Victor Deloria, Sr.; Nephew Vine Deloria, Jr.
AwardsIndian Achievement Award, 1943; Ella C. Deloria Undergraduate Research Fellowship established in her honor

Ella Cara Deloria (January 31, 1889 – February 12, 1971), also called Aŋpétu Wašté Wiŋ (Beautiful Day Woman), was a Yankton Dakota (Sioux) educator, anthropologist, ethnographer, linguist, and novelist. She recorded Native American oral history and contributed to the study of Native American languages.[2] According to Cotera (2008), Deloria was "a pre-eminent expert on Dakota/Lakota/Nakota cultural religious, and linguistic practices."[3] In the 1940s, Deloria wrote the novel Waterlily, which was published in 1988 and republished in 2009.[4][5][6]

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  2. ^ Gacs, Khan, McIntyre, Weinberg (1989). Women anthropologists : selected biographies. Urbana, Illinois: University of Illinois Press. pp. 45–50. ISBN 0-252-06084-9. OCLC 19670310.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  3. ^ Cotera, María Eugenia (2008). "Standing on the Middle Ground: Ella Deloria's Decolonizing Methodology". Native Speakers: Ella Deloria, Zora Neale Hurston, Jovita González, and the Poetics of Culture. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press. pp. 41–69. ISBN 978-0-292-79384-2.
  4. ^ "Ella Cara Deloria: Sioux scholar, ethnographer, writer, and translator". Britannica. 8 May 2024.
  5. ^ "Ella Cara Deloria: Anpetu Wastéwin (Beautiful Day Woman)". Akta Lakota Museum and Cultural Center. Archived from the original on 2020-03-18. Retrieved 2019-08-13.
  6. ^ "Deloria, Ella Cara". Encyclopedia.com.