Essays on Deloria

Katie Johnson was a twenty-year-old lady who was married to Jacob Johnson, a twenty-four-year-old man. The two lived a simple life that involved eating healthy meals and living peasant life in their garden. Katie was a stay-home wife, and her birth could be traced back to the year 1308 in Virginia. She was the only child of Joseph Mount and his wife. By the time she was three years old, Katie had lost her father. Her mother managed to get remarried to another man, who became her step-father for a while until he died. For the next seven years, ...

Indians in Unexpected Places

Philip Deloria is the author of the book “Indians in unexpected Places. In this book, the author describes, the photograph of the mid-twentieth century through a woman who is dressed in a beaded buckskin dress. She is sitting under a hair dryer salon. The author has depicted the picture of non-Indians and their way of thinking towards Indianness and the modernity influenced by Americans and their reactions towards their indigenous people. Deloria also points out certain pictures of the Indian through their participation in the athletic events, buying of goods like automobiles, in Indian films, and the popularity of music. Deloria explained ...

The novel Waterlily was written by Ella Cara Deloria in 1940s but the writer insisted that the book must be published after her death. Thus, Waterlily saw the light 1988 when it was first published, eighteen years after the author’s death. The first publication of the book was almost twice shorter than the original novel. This editorial advice given by Ruth Benedict allowed to underline the plot focusing on its most remarkable parts and make the novel more readable. The book concentrates on the life of the Dakota state with exploration of its ethnography and local traditions. The ...

The Popularity of being Indian

In “The Popularity of being Indian and returning the Balance” the authors are both struggling with their identity, but in different ways. Deloria feels that literary mythologizing of Indians has clouded their actual history. He feels that the term “Indian” has been used to influence personal and social agendas that have impacted identity. Deloria worries that true Native Americas will lose their identity because of their misrepresentation in society (Calloway 2012). There is an ever constant struggle between acceptance and rejection in this culture. While they were once persecuted now they are mythologized. This ever changing process has ...