Ella Cara Deloria: Dakota Language Protector

Ella Cara Deloria: Dakota Language ProtectorGrowing up, Ella Cara Deloria loved listening to her family tell stories in the Dakota language. As an adult, she recorded many Native American peoples stories and languages and shared them with everyone. She helped protect her peoples language for future generations. From recording stories to writing stories of her own, learn all about the life of Deloria.

"The Indigenous peoples Pike lived and worked with speak loudly from these pages

these stories tell among other things

In Dog Flowers

vividly demonstrating that theories come from lived and felt experiences

An Aboriginal Carol is certain to become a classic

All attesting to the wonder of the powwow

Introduction by Jordan Abel

The New Voice of God reveals how these linguistic differences encoded basic predispositions and orientations toward the physical

Stories such as “Naanabozho and the Squeaky-Voice Plant” place the plants in cultural context and illustrate the belief in plants as cognizant beings

Alice cannot fight the feeling that something is very

author of The Grass Dancer

he doesn’t feel like he belongs