# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ella-cara-deloria
# Generated: 2026-08-15T07:22:27.630Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ella-cara-deloria"
name: "Ella Cara Deloria"
slug: "ella-cara-deloria"
description: "Ella Cara Deloria, also called Aŋpétu Wašté Wiŋ, was a Yankton Dakota educator, anthropologist, ethnographer, linguist, and novelist. She recorded Native American oral history and contributed to the study of Native American languages. According to Cotera (2008), Deloria was \"a pre-eminent expert on Dakota/Lakota/Nakota cultural, religious, and linguistic practices.\" In the 1940s, Deloria wrote the novel Waterlily, which was published in 1988 and republished in 2009."
tagline: "Yankton Dakota Author (1889–1971)"
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gender: "female"
country:
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1889-01-31"
deathDate: "1971-02-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.62592
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  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump