List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Presentation of Ella Cara Deloria
Editorial Note
Pronunciation Guide
Table of Kinship Terms
Introduction
1. The Camp Circle
2. Law and Order
3. The Family
4. The Home
5. Courtship and Marriage
6. Wedded Life
7. Death and Burial
8. Relatives of Marriage
9. Formal Relatives of Birth
10. Informal Relatives of Birth
11. Relatives of Social Kinship
12. Birth and Infancy
13. Preadolescence
14. Adolescence
Afterword by Phillip J. Deloria
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Ella Cara Deloria (1889–1971), a member of a prominent Yankton Sioux family, was born on the Yankton Reservation and lived as a child on the Standing Rock Reservation. She studied at Columbia University and is the author of three other books, including Waterlily, Speaking of Indians, and Dakota Texts, all available in Bison Books editions. Raymond J. DeMallie (1946–2021) was Chancellor’s Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and former director of the American Indian Studies Research Institute. Thierry Veyrié is a research associate at the American Indian Studies Research Institute.
"This is a definitive, monumental work."—John Peacock, Tribal
College Journal
"Deloria's passion for her ethnographic work, and the subsequent
care of the editors, demonstrates the value of collaborative effort
when doing ethnography in tribal communities."—Clementine
Bordeaux, Journal of Folklore Research Reviews
"It is no exaggeration to say that The Dakota Way of Life is
perhaps the most important academic cultural study of Lakota/Dakota
society since Dr. James Walker's early twentieth century work, if
not of all time."—Akim Reinhardt, South Dakota History
"The Dakota Way of Life by Ella Deloria is one of the longest
awaited and most extensive studies of the Dakota peoples on the
high plains to date. Published posthumously, Raymond DeMallie and
Thierry Veyrié helped shape an updated version that retains
Deloria's voice and original work."—Broc Anderson, Nebraska
History
"This book, edited and published long after Deloria's death, is an
extensive ethnographic and linguistic 'study of the Sioux,' a
comprehensive cultural exploration and a literary preservation of
the Dakota way of life."—Jean A. Lukesh, Roundup Magazine
“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 tenured 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
“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. . . . The blending
of ethnographic formalism with informal accounts, anecdotes, and
personal stories gives it the sensibility that real-life observers
of Ella Deloria often described: a combination of her serious
commitment to record culture and teach it and a personal
charisma marked by a sense of humor and a penchant for a good
story. . . . This book will stand as the definitive
version.”—Philip J. Deloria, author of Becoming Mary Sully: Toward
an American Indian Abstract
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