THE DAKOTA WAY OF LIFE ELLA CARA DELORIA EDITED BY RAYMOND J. DEMALLIE AND THIERRY VEYRIÉ AFTERWORD BY PHILIP J. DELORIA Ella Cara Deloria was the most prolific Native scholar of the greater Sioux Nation, and the results of her lifelong work comprise an essential source for the study of the greater Sioux Nation culture and language. “For its breadth and depth on the specific subject of Lakota ethnography—society, language, etc.—The Dakota Way of Life has no competitors. There is significant material here that still, so long after its recording, has not been brought to light by other authors. The level of detail is also a feature that sets Ella Cara Deloria’s book apart from other works. If Deloria had been male, white, and a true academic, her work would have been published when it was completed and would
have come to be viewed as a seminal work in the field. It is a vital, necessary contribution.”—Emily Levine, editor of Josephine Waggoner’s Witness: A Húŋkpapȟa Historian’s Strong-Heart Song of the Lakotas “Ella Deloria’s ethnography—unpublished for some seven decades—is one of the key ‘undiscovered’ texts on which the Lakota/Dakota studies field might rest and continue to grow. . . . This book will stand as the definitive version of Deloria’s work.” —Philip J. Deloria, author of Becoming Mary Sully: Toward an American Indian Abstract December 2022•454 pp.•6 x 9•1 diagram, 1 table, index $36.95•hardcover•978-1-4962-3359-2 Studies in the Anthropology of North American Indians
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