The Influence of Missionaries on the Language

Ella Deloria was trained under Franz Boas and she's a very educated person but is also living in this world. She would interview traditional storytellers and she would try to correct Riggs Riggs and the Pawn Brothers mistranslations. These stories are fused with this Christian bias right these missionaries when they translated them into these Christian parables or they transform them so they look like Greek or Latin myths, says Eastman.