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Ella Cara Deloria
, 1889-1971
Ella Deloria was born in 1899, on the Yankton Sioux Reservation in South Dakota. She attended Oberlin College before obtaining her B.S. from Columbia University in 1915. She was an anthropologist, linguist, novelist, and a leading authority on Sioux culture and language. She wrote fictional works, and also served as a translator.
Awards and Honors
Indian Achievement Medal, 1943.
Online resources by or about Ella Cara Deloria:
Ella Cara Deloria
Author: Carol Miller
Type: authorbio
Description: This page is part of a series from Voices from the Gaps: Women Writers of Color produced by the Department of English and Programs in American Studies at the University of Minnesota. Included is an indepth biography, selected bibliography and related links.
URL: http://voices.cla.umn.edu/authors/EllaDeloria.html
Ella Cara Deloria
Author: Kathleen Del Monte, Karen Bachman, Catherine Klein, Bridget McCourt
Type: authorbio
Description: Information about Deloria from "Celebrating Women Anthropologists", a site created by 4 USF anthropology graduates students.
URL: http://www.cas.usf.edu/anthropology/women/deloria/deloria.htm
Kids' Castle: Ella Cara Deloria
Author: Linda Crotta Brennan
Type: authorbio
Description: The text of this article is excerpted from a March 1997 "Cricket Magazine" article about Deloria.
URL: http://www.kidscastle.si.edu/channels/personalities/articles/personalitiesarticle6.html
Speaking of Ella Deloria: Conversations with Joyzelle Gingway Godfrey, 1998-2000, Lower Brule Community College, South Dakota
Author: Susan Gardner
Type: authorbio
Description: An interview from American Indian Quarterly [ 24.3 (2000) 456-475.]
URL: http://muse.jhu.edu/demo/american_indian_quarterly/24.3gardner.html
Books by Ella Cara Deloria:
Deloria, Ella Cara. Buffalo People
Albuquerque : University of New Mexixo Press, 1994.
Genre: Folklore
Language: English and Lakota
Description: 220 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Edited by Julian Rice. Includes bibliographical references and index. Dakota Indians--Folklore. Dakota women. Teton Indians--Folklore. Teton Indians--Women. Lakota dialect--Texts.
ISBN: 0826315062 0826315070 (pbk.)
Deloria, Ella Cara. Dakota grammar
Sioux Falls, S.D. : Dakota Press, 1979.
Genre: Nonfiction
Language: Dakota and English
Description: Co-authored by Franz Boas; originally published in 1941.
Dakota language--Grammar.
Audience: Adult
ISBN: 088249029X
Deloria, Ella Cara. Dakota Texts
New York : G.E. Stechert & co., agents, 1932.
Genre: Folklore
Description: 279 p. ; 25 cm.
Series : Publications of the American Ethnological Society, v. 14. Dakota Indians--Legends.
Deloria, Ella Cara. Deer women and elk men : the Lakota narratives of Ella Deloria
Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 1992.
Genre: Folklore
Description: 211 p. ; 24 cm.
Contributor : Julian Rice Deloria, Ella Carr. Dakota Indians--Folklore. Dakota Indians--Sexual behavior. Lakota dialect--Grammar. Lakota dialect--Social aspects.
ISBN: 0826313620
Deloria, Ella Cara. Iron hawk
Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 1993.
Genre: Folklore / Nonfiction
Language: Lakota and English
Description: 230 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Edited by Julian Rice. Includes bibliographical references and index. Oglala Indians--Legends. Lakota dialect--Texts.
Audience: Adult
ISBN: 082631435X (hc.) / 0826314473 (pbk.)
Deloria, Ella Cara. Reminiscences of Ella Deloria, Standing Rock Sioux Tribe of South Dakota
1969.
Genre: Oral History
Description: 30 leaves. Interviewer: Bea Medicine.
New York Times oral history program American Indian oral history research project. Part II ; no. 69.
Deloria, Ella Cara. Speaking of Indians
Vermillion : Dakota Press, 1979.
Genre: Essays
Description: 108 p. ; 23 cm. With introductory notes by Agnes Picotte and Paul N. Pavich ; cover design by Mary Sully (Susan Mable Deloria). Reprint of the 1944 ed. published by Friendship Press, New York.
Audience: Adult
ISBN: 0882490265
Deloria, Ella Cara. Waterlily
Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 1988.
Genre: Fiction
Description: 244 p. ; 23 cm.
Dakota Indians--Fiction.
Audience: Adult
ISBN: 0803247397
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