[Review of] Ella Cara Deloria. Waterlily

Authors

Franchot Ballinger

Orginal Publication Date

1989

Journal Title

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

Volume

9

Issue

ess/vol9/iss1

First Page

22

Last Page

23

Abstract

Waterlily is a fictional rendering of a typical Teton woman's life in the nineteenth century, at the time the Sioux were first experiencing contact with the invading white world. The perspective from which the work was written (in the 1940s) is unique on two counts. First, its author was herself Sioux (albeit Yankton, not Teton) which allowed her to bring to the work an understanding and empathy not available to the mostly male Euro-American ethnographers also writing about the Sioux

Rights

Copyright, ​©EES, The National Association for Ethnic Studies, 1989