Ella Deloria

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Oral presentation
''Ella Cara Deloria''

NAME: Montaño Rivera Ulices Carlos
DATE: August 04, 2012

Santa Cruz -Bolivia
Ella Cara DeloriaIt was not until her posthumous novel Waterlily was published in 1988 that Ella C. Deloria became known for her literary ability in addition to her already- established reputation in the academicarena of linguistics and ethnology. During her lifetime, she was recognized for the linguistic ability and cultural sensitivity that went into the production of a collection of traditional shortstories entitled Dakota Texts (1932). After her death, her versions of a number of longer traditional stories and the novel Waterlily were published; with the publication of Waterlily came the recognitionof her true literary ability and the awareness that it was the strength of her literary ability, in addition to her linguistic expertise and her deep cultural understanding, that had made herversions of traditional stories so compelling.
She was born in January 31, 1889 into Nakota, and dead in February 12, 1971, She was also called Aŋpétu Wašté Wiŋ (Beautiful Day Woman), was an educator,anthropologist, ethnographer, linguist, and novelist of Yankton Sioux background, however, she grew up among the Lakota people in North Dakota, where her father was a leader in the Episcopal Church. Herfather, the son of a traditional Nakota medicine man, valued both the cultural traditions of his family and those of the country of his citizenship. As a result, Deloria primarily spoke Nakota at homeand Lakota when she was out in the community, and when she was well versed there in the cultural traditions of her Sioux ancestors (with a complex kinship structure in which all of a child's father'sbrothers are also considered fathers, all of a child's mother's sisters are also considered mothers, and all of the children of all these mothers and fathers are considered siblings). Her education...