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Fallen Star Language and Epistemologies ............................................................................................................................................................................. ella deloria I have been steeped in Dakota lore and seen and felt it around me ever since childhood, it is in fact the very texture of my being. —Ella Cara Deloria orn on January 31, 1889, to Mary and Reverend Philip J. Deloria on the Yank- B ton Reservation, Ella Cara Deloria spent much of her life deeply immersed in the Dakota and Lakota oral storytelling traditions.1 As a member of the Dakota nation, Deloria was familiar with both storytelling traditions because shortly after she was born, her family moved to the Standing Rock Reservation, where she was exposed to the Lakota dialect and also began attending boarding school. In 1910 Deloria graduated from All Saints Boarding School and continued her education at the University of Chicago, Oberlin College, and Columbia College. At Columbia College, Deloria met the famed anthropologist Franz Boas, who hired her in 1927 to correct and retranslate Dakota and Lakota texts collected by early nineteenth- century missionaries and ethnologists who desperately wanted to preserve tradi- tional oral stories as a record of a primitive people rapidly nearing extinction. In 1938 Deloria began interviewing tribal storytellers and historians on the Flandreau http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png English Language Notes Duke University Press

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Deloria, Ella; Gómez, Leila
English Language Notes , Volume 58 (1) – Apr 1, 2020
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Language and Epistemologies ............................................................................................................................................................................. ella deloria I have been steeped in Dakota lore and seen and felt it around me ever since childhood, it is in fact the very texture of my being. —Ella Cara Deloria orn on January 31, 1889, to Mary and Reverend Philip J. Deloria on the Yank- B ton Reservation, Ella Cara Deloria spent much of her life deeply immersed in the Dakota and Lakota oral storytelling traditions.1 As a member of the Dakota nation, Deloria was familiar with both storytelling traditions because shortly after she was born, her family moved to the Standing Rock Reservation, where she was exposed to the Lakota dialect and also began attending boarding school. In 1910 Deloria graduated from All Saints Boarding School and continued her education at the University of Chicago, Oberlin College, and Columbia College. At Columbia College, Deloria met the famed anthropologist Franz Boas, who hired her in 1927 to correct and retranslate Dakota and Lakota texts collected by early nineteenth- century missionaries and ethnologists who desperately wanted to preserve tradi- tional oral stories as a record of a primitive people rapidly nearing extinction. In 1938 Deloria began interviewing tribal storytellers and historians on the Flandreau

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