Deloria, Ella Cara

A member of a prominent Yankton Sioux family, Ella Cara Deloria was born in 1889 on the Yankton Reservation and lived as a child on the Standing Rock Reservation. Her studies at Columbia University with Franz Boas resulted in three books, "Dakota Texts," "Dakota Grammar" (a collaboration with Boas), and "Speaking of Indians," as well as many other writings.