[Review of] Ella Cara Deloria. Waterlily

Waterlily is a fictional rendering of a typical Teton woman\u27s life in the nineteenth century, at the time the Sioux were first experiencing contact with the invading white world. The perspective from which the work was written (in the 1940s) is unique on two counts. First, its author was herself Sioux (albeit Yankton, not Teton) which allowed her to bring to the work an understanding and empathy not available to the mostly male Euro-American ethnographers also writing about the Siou