Ella Cara Deloria (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles Ella Cara Deloria (January 30, 1888 - February 12, 1971), also called npetu Wa te W n (Beautiful Day Woman), was an educator, anthropologist, ethnographer, linguist, and novelist of Yankton Sioux background. She recorded Sioux oral history and legends, and in the 1940s wrote a novel, Waterlily, finally published in 1988.