Gordon Morris Bakken
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Websites : SAGE Publications, SAGE Biography, Faculty Page
Gordon Morris Bakken is a professor of history at California State University, Fullerton. He contributed an article on “Ella Cara Deloria” to SAGE Publications’ Encyclopedia of Women in the American West (2003), and a version of this article was used for his Britannica entry on this topic.
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Ella Cara Deloria was a Dakota Sioux scholar, ethnographer, writer, and translator who was a critically important recorder of Sioux culture and languages at a time when the traditional culture was in danger of being lost. Both Deloria’s parents were of mixed Euro-American and Yankton Sioux descent.…
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