Ella Cara Deloria

Anthropologist, Author

1889 – 1971

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Who was Ella Cara Deloria?

Ella Cara Deloria, also called Aŋpétu Wašté Wiŋ, was an educator, anthropologist, ethnographer, linguist, and novelist of European American and Dakota ancestry. She recorded Sioux oral history and legends, and contributed to the study of their languages. In the 1940s, she wrote a novel, Waterlily. It was finally published in 1988, and in 2009 was issued in a new edition.

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Born
Jan 31, 1889
South Dakota
Ethnicity
  • Indigenous peoples of the Americas
Nationality
  • United States of America
Profession
Education
  • Columbia University
  • Oberlin College
Died
Feb 12, 1971

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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