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Why the Lakota Still Have Their Own: Ella Deloria’s Dakota Texts

Why the Lakota Still Have Their Own: Ella Deloria’s Dakota Texts Why the Lakota Still Have Their Own: Ella Deloria’s Dakota Texts Julian Rice Western American Literature, Volume 19, Number 3, Fall 1984, pp. 205-217 (Article) Published by University of Nebraska Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.1984.0146 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/531633/summary Access provided at 24 Feb 2020 16:41 GMT from JHU Libraries J U L I A N R I C E Florida A tla n tic University Why the Lakota Still Have Their Own: Ella Deloria’s Dakota Texts T h e themes of a L ak o ta oral narrativ e m ay be discovered and recreated by the close reading an d explication applicable to a w ritten text. But it m ust be rem em bered th a t these narratives were not set down or recited in exactly the same way on every occasion. T h e act of telling is a vital “them e,” im m ediately present for the original audience b u t absent for the physically abstracted reader. Since th e themes of L akota stories emphasize th e d o m inant, perhaps th e pred o m in an t virtue of wacantognaka (generosity), a storyteller manifests th a t http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Western American Literature The Western Literature Association

Why the Lakota Still Have Their Own: Ella Deloria’s Dakota Texts

Western American Literature , Volume 19 (3) – Oct 4, 2017

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Why the Lakota Still Have Their Own: Ella Deloria’s Dakota Texts Julian Rice Western American Literature, Volume 19, Number 3, Fall 1984, pp. 205-217 (Article) Published by University of Nebraska Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.1984.0146 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/531633/summary Access provided at 24 Feb 2020 16:41 GMT from JHU Libraries J U L I A N R I C E Florida A tla n tic University Why the Lakota Still Have Their Own: Ella Deloria’s Dakota Texts T h e themes of a L ak o ta oral narrativ e m ay be discovered and recreated by the close reading an d explication applicable to a w ritten text. But it m ust be rem em bered th a t these narratives were not set down or recited in exactly the same way on every occasion. T h e act of telling is a vital “them e,” im m ediately present for the original audience b u t absent for the physically abstracted reader. Since th e themes of L akota stories emphasize th e d o m inant, perhaps th e pred o m in an t virtue of wacantognaka (generosity), a storyteller manifests th a t

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