biography
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Deloria, Ella Cara
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originally Anpetu Wastewin
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pronunciation:
[delawria]
| sex:
| female
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| lived:
| (1889–1971)
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| biography:
| Yankton Sioux scholar and writer, born in Wakpala, South Dakota, USA. She worked with Franz Boas (1929) at her alma mater, Columbia University, on a study of Siouan language. Her most important books are Dakota Texts (1932), Speaking of Indians (1944), and the novel Waterlily (1988), published 17 years after her death. |
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