Ella Cara Deloria | |
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Aŋpétu Wašté Wiŋ, "Beautiful Day Woman" | |
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Born | White Swan district of the Yankton Indian Reservation, South Dakota | January 31, 1889
Died | February 12, 1971 | (aged 82)
Education | Educated at her father's mission school and All Saints Boarding School |
Alma mater | Oberlin College; B.Sc., Teachers College, Columbia University, 1915 |
Occupation(s) | Educator, anthropologist, ethnographer, linguist, and novelist |
Known for | Recording 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 |
Relatives | Sister Susan Deloria; brother Vine Victor Deloria, Sr.; Nephew Vine Deloria, Jr. |
Awards | Indian 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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