Ella Cara Deloria (1889–1971)
Autor de Waterlily
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Obras de Ella Cara Deloria
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Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Otros nombres
- Aŋpétu Wašté Wiŋ
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1889-01-30
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 1971-02-12
- Lugar de sepultura
- Saint Phillips Episcopal Cemetery, Lake Andes, South Dakota, USA
- Género
- female
- Nacionalidad
- Yankton Dakota
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Yankton Indian Reservation, South Dakota, USA
- Lugar de fallecimiento
- Wagner, South Dakota, USA
- Lugares de residencia
- Yankton Reservation, USA
Standing Rock Reservation, USA
Sioux Falls, South Dakota, USA
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Oberlin, Ohio, USA
New York, USA - Educación
- University of Chicago
Oberlin College
Teachers College of Columbia University - Ocupaciones
- anthropologist
teacher
novelist
ethnographer - Relaciones
- Deloria, Vine, Sr. (brother)
Deloria, Vine, Jr. (nephew)
Deloria, Philip J. (grand-nephew)
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- Obras
- 8
- También por
- 5
- Miembros
- 623
- Popularidad
- #40,415
- Valoración
- 3.8
- Reseñas
- 5
- ISBNs
- 22
- Idiomas
- 1
Then a certain young man catches her eye, but it’s not proper for a young woman to chase after a man, she has to indicate her interest subtly, if at all. Meanwhile she’s expected to accept a different young man from another group who asked for her in marriage, because it will enable her parents to honor someone else they’re indebted to. She does what is expected of her and moves to the other camp, where she doesn’t know anyone at all. They are kind and welcoming, but she always feels constricted by formalities among them. Waterlily is relatively content though, and looks forward to building a life with her new husband. Then someone brings blankets into camp, that foreign soldiers had dropped on a path. The blankets are coveted as a novelty item, and in the traditional gift-giving are passed around from family to family. Then many of them start to fall sick, with what sounds like smallpox. There are many deaths, in spite of their efforts to slow the spread of the disease (which they realized too late). Waterlily is soon bereft of her husband, afterwards feels even more alone in the camp. She finds means to travel back to her parents’ camp, where to her surprise, another man soon approaches her with thoughts of marriage. In this second match she is more at ease, and finds contentment and gradually, a secure feeling of joy.
This book has a plain tone. It’s not the easiest read, doesn’t have a lot of plot or exciting events, mainly being just a detailed account of everyday life. The author was part Sioux, she grew up on the Standing Rock reservation and became a linguist and educator, spent much of her life working to record Native American legends, oral history and language. So I trust it doesn't have any accuracy issues in depicting the culture. (Far from it!)
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