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Samuel W. Pond

Dakota Life In the Upper Midwest

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In 1834 Samuel W. Pond and his brother Gideon built a cabin near Cloud Man's village of the Dakota Indians on the shore of Lake Calhoun-now present-day Minneapolis-intending to preach Christianity to the Indians. The brothers were to spend nearly twenty years learning the Dakota language and observing how the Indians lived.In the 1860s and 1870s, after the Dakota had fought a disastrous war with the whites who had taken their land, Samuel Pond recorded his recollections of the Indians to show what manner of people the Dakotas were . . . while they still retained the customs of their ancestors.Pond's work, first published in 1908, is now consi… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-87351-665-5
  • EAN: 9780873516655
  • Produktnummer: 22135639
  • Verlag: Minnesota Historical Society Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
  • Seitenangabe: 214 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 2'068 KB
  • Auflage: 1. Auflage

Über den Autor


Samuel W. Pond (1808-91) was born in New Preston, Connecticut, and served as a Presbyterian missionary to the Dakota Indians in Minnesota for twenty years. Gary Clayton Anderson, a professor of history at the University of Oklahoma, is the author of Little Crow, Spokesman for the Sioux and Kinsmen of Another Kind: Dakota-White Relations in the Upper Mississippi Valley, 1650-1862 and coeditor of Through Dakota Eyes: Narrative Accounts of the Minnesota Indian War of 1862.

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