Waterlily Waterlily by Ella Cara Deloria is a book based on events in the life of a specific Dakota Indian family. It not only depicts the life of the Blue Bird and its family but also records the rituals and culture of Dakota. Events in the story can be visualized and understood through descriptive words and graphic details. The story begins with an event with someone's blue bird. The Blue Bird is traveling with Dakotas Camp, and while carrying it it is carrying a baby.
Elakaraderoria is an extraordinary life. By carefully intentionally analyzing her classic piece Waterlily, we can share some of our lives. One of the most exciting and important aspects of this article is that Deloria clearly shows a comprehensive picture of Dakotasu's traditional life and era before contacting European culture and social turmoil and dissolution It is possible to do. Trained at the University of Colombia of the prominent anthropologist Franz Bois, Deloria is an independent, objective and scientific analysis of the Sioux culture of Dakota - an analysis that provides a detailed analysis of the foundation of Dakota's social anthropology - It was able to offer to us. At the same time, thanks to her language and creativity, Mr. Deloria wrote a persuasive story full of strong characters, fluent plots, and educational lessons.
Ella Cara Deloria was born in Yankton Sioux and is a researcher in translation and ethnology of Sioux. She translated and translated academic papers on traditional Sue's lives and customs, but decided to write a novel to make this lifestyle a reader. Fun and insightful results are lily. The title refers to one of the main characters, but in reality the novel relates to the whole family of water lily. For women and men in Dakota, relatives are like life itself.
In 1942, Deloria started work at Waterlily. Her colleague, Ruth Benedict, advised her to focus his work on the structure of Sue culture. Deloria worked closely with Benedict and Boas to encourage Deloria to use literature to summarize her understanding of local culture. It took me 20 years to study Siou's historical background and to be able to make this novel. Deloria can translate important rituals. As an ethnographic journalist, her ability to translate these important events in Siou's culture has made her novels famous and well-known literary work in the study of native relatives. Her translation preserves the Siou tradition as precisely as possible, not only for future generations, but also for people not familiar with Sio culture. Derolia interviewed other Siou people and tried to make her novels as realistic and truthful as possible.