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Molly Spotted Elk was the stage name of Molly Nelson Dellis, a Native American actress and dancer born in 1903 in the Penobscot reservation in Maine and died in 1977.

In the 1920s Spotted Elk performed in New York nightclubs, she starred in The Silent Enemy, a 1930 silent docu-drama of native America life. In the 1930s she moved to Paris where she found an audience for traditional native American dance. While there she met and married French journalist Jean Archambaud. At this time she began the researching folktales and traditions of the native American north-east. She and her family, which by then included a daughter, moved to the United States at the outbreak of World War II.

Bibliography

Bunny McBride (1997) Molly Spotted Elk: A Penobscot in Paris, University of Oklahoma Press, ISBN 0806129891.
Molly Spotted Elk (2003) Katahdin: Wigwam's Tales of the Abnaki Tribe and a Dictionary of Penobscot and Passamaquoddy Words with French and English Translation, Maine Folklife Center, ISBN 0943197295.

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