Ella Cara Deloria
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Ella Cara Deloria (January 31, 1889 – February 12, 1971), (Yankton Dakota), also known as A?pétu Watu Wi? (Beautiful Day Woman) Embestry, anthropologist, linguist, and novelist of European American and Native American (American Indian) origins.
She wrote about Native American oral history and legends, as well as contributing to the study of Native American languages.
Deloria wrote Waterlily, a 1940s book that was first published in 1988 and republished in 2009.
Life
Deloria was born in 1889 in the Yankton Indian Reservation's White Swan district. Mary (or Miriam) Deloria's parents were Mary (or Miriam) (Sully) Bordeaux Deloria and Philip Joseph Deloria, and she had Yankton Dakota, English, French, and German roots, and German roots. (The family surname goes back to Francois-Xavier Delauriers, a French trapper ancestor). Her father was one of the first Sioux to be ordained as an Episcopal priest. Her mother was a Métis Yankton Sioux and the niece of Alfred Sully, a US Army general, and a Métis Yankton Sioux. Ella was the first child of the couple, who each had multiple children by previous marriages. Susan (also known as Mary Sully) and her brother, Vine Deloria Sr., were among her siblings who became an Episcopal priest like their father. Vine Deloria Jr., a well-known writer, is her nephew.
Deloria was born on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation in Wakpala, and she was educated first at her father's mission school, St. Elizabeth's Church and Boarding School, and then at All Saints Boarding School in Sioux Falls. She attended Oberlin College, Ohio, where she had earned a scholarship after graduating in 1910. Deloria spent three years in Oberlin, Columbia University, New York, and graduated with a B.Sc. In 1915, there was a special teaching certificate and a special teaching certificate.
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She suffered from not having the funds or the free time she needed to complete an advanced degree throughout her working life. She had promised to the help of her family. Susan, her mother and uncle were elderly, and her sister Susan was dependent on her financially.
Deloria had many other positions, including teaching (dance and physical education at Haskell Indian Boarding School), lecturing and attending protests (on Native American history), and working for the Camp Fire Girls and as a national health education secretary, as well as a national health education secretary (see below). She has also worked at the Sioux Indian Museum in Rapid City, South Dakota, as an assistant director at the W.H. Museum in Vermillion in Vermillion.
Deloria had a string of strokes in 1970 and died of pneumonia the next year.