The Dakota Way of Life

The Dakota Way of LifeElla Cara Deloria devoted much of her life to the study of the language and culture of the Sioux (Dakota and Lakota). The Dakota Way of Life is the result of the long history of her ethnographic descriptions of traditional Dakota culture and social life. Deloria was the most prolific Native scholar of the greater Sioux Nation, and the results of her work comprise an essential source for the study of the greater Sioux Nation culture and language. For

beginning with her early discoveries of her own voice and ending with moving reflections on our contemporary moment

and evade paradoxes stemming from simultaneous construction and destruction of these native peoples

Geniusz teaches the ways she was taught—through stories

”—Deborah Madison

the long political and economic relationship between the military and Native America

military officers

the survival schools foreground the movement’s local and regional engagement with issues of language

others are adapted from "ice-breaker" activities that are used as part of various workshop presentations

It is filled with humor

An undercover team

sometimes complicit--between American Indian Literature and literary theory

Originally included in a 1909 book of Dakota tales