Joyzelle Godfrey is a retired college professor who taught Lakota Studies for Sinte Gleska University in South Dakota as well as English and Writing. Her storytelling is based on the historical culture of her tribe and the information collected by the well known author and ethnographer Ella Deloria who wrote the historical novel Waterlily and who is Godfrey’s Dakota grandmother. The first of Deloria’s anthropological textbooks, Dakota Way of Life, is edited by Godfrey and published in conjunction with Mariah Press of Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
