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Deloria, Ella Cara

LC control no.n 79043352
Descriptive conventionsrda
LC classificationPS3554.E44445
Personal name headingDeloria, Ella Cara
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Variant(s)Anpépetu Wašté Win
Beautiful Day Woman
Associated countryUnited States
LocatedOberlin (Ohio) New York (N.Y.) Vermillion (S.D.)
Birth date1889-01-31
Death date1971-02-12
Place of birthWakpala (S.D.)
Place of deathVermillion (S.D.)
AffiliationOberlin College
Columbia University
Columbia University
Profession or occupationUniversity and college faculty members
College teachers Anthropologists Linguists Novelists
Found inGods of the upper air, 2019: p. 232 (known by multiple names, including Anpépetu Wašté Win, or Beautiful Day Woman, Ella Cara Deloria; b. January 31, 1889 at the Yankton Indian Reservation in South Dakota)
Wikipedia, October 21, 2019 (Ella Cara Deloria; b. January 31, 1889; d. February 12, 1971; educator, anthropologist, enthnographer, linguist and novelist; recorded Native American oral history and legends and contributed to the study of Native American languages)
Johansen, Bruce E. The encyclopedia of Native American biography, 1997: pages 106-107 (Ella Cara Deloria; Anpetu Wastewin; Standing Rock Sioux, Columbia University faculty member starting in 1929. Born in Wakpala, South Dakota. Attended Oberlin College and Columbia University, graduating from the latter in 1915 with a bachelor's degree. Worked with Frank Boas on two major studies of the Dakota language. Died in a nursing home in Vermillion, South Dakota.)
Associated languageeng dak