Dakota Texts

by Ella Cara Deloria, Raymond J. Demallie (Introduction)

Ella Deloria (1889–1971), one of the first Native students of linguistics and ethnography in the United States, grew up on the Standing Rock Reservation on the northern Great Plains and was trained by Franz Boas at Columbia University. Dakota Texts presents a rich array of Sioux mythology and folklore in its original language and in translation. Originally published in 1932 by the American Ethnological Society, this work is a landmark contribution to the study of the Sioux tribes.

Genres: Anthropology

280 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1932

About the author

Ella Cara Deloria (January 31, 1889 – February 12, 1971), (Yankton Dakota), also called Aŋpétu Wašté Wiŋ (Beautiful Day Woman), 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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Reviews

[in8 · Rating 4 out of 5]

read in 1994: https://5cense.com/20/817.htm

[Noelle Thompson · Rating 2 out of 5]

Sometimes a difficult read but so worth reading. Deloria takes Dakota stories word for word in their original language and in the translated version, which of course means a lot of things don't translate directly.