Winner of the 2023 Dwight L. Smith (ABC-CLIO) AwardBronze Medal for the 2023 Will Rogers Medallion AwardElla 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 h...