Dakota in Exile - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dakota in Exile write by Linda M. Clemmons. This book was released on 2019. Dakota in Exile available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Robert Hopkins was a man caught between two worlds. As a member of the Dakota Nation, he was unfairly imprisoned, accused of taking up arms against U.S. soldiers when war broke out with the Dakota in 1862. However, as a Christian convert who was also a preacher, Hopkins's allegiance was often questioned by many of his fellow Dakota as well. Without a doubt, being a convert--and a favorite of the missionaries--had its privileges. Hopkins learned to read and write in an anglicized form of Dakota, and when facing legal allegations, he and several high-ranking missionaries wrote impassioned letters in his defense. Ultimately, he was among the 300-some Dakota spared from hanging by President Lincoln, imprisoned instead at Camp Kearney in Davenport, Iowa, for several years. His wife, Sarah, and their children, meanwhile, were forced onto the barren Crow Creek reservation in Dakota Territory with the rest of the Dakota women, children, and elderly. In both places, the Dakota were treated as novelties, displayed for curious residents like zoo animals. Historian Linda Clemmons examines the surviving letters from Robert and Sarah; other Dakota language sources; and letters from missionaries, newspaper accounts, and federal documents. She blends both the personal and the historical to complicate our understanding of the development of the Midwest, while also serving as a testament to the resilience of the Dakota and other indigenous peoples who have lived in this region from time immemorial.
Dakota Women's Work
Dakota Women's Work - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dakota Women's Work write by Colette A. Hyman. This book was released on 2012. Dakota Women's Work available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Ornately decorated objects created by Dakota women -- cradleboards, clothing, animal skin containers -- served more than a utilitarian function. They tell the story of colonization, genocide, and survival. Colette Hyman traces the changes in the lives of Dakota women, starting before the arrival of whites and covering the fur trade years, the years of treaties and shrinking lands, the brutal time of removal, starvation, and shattered families after 1862, and then the transition to reservation life, when missionaries and government agents worked to turn the Dakota into Christian farmers. The decorative work of Dakota women reflected all of this: native organic dyes and quillwork gave way to beading and needlework, items traditionally decorated for family gifts were also produced to sell to tourists and white collectors, work on cradleboards and animal skin bags shifted to the ornamenting of hymnals and the creation of star quilts.
Mni Sota Makoce
Mni Sota Makoce - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mni Sota Makoce write by Gwen Westerman. This book was released on 2012. Mni Sota Makoce available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An intricate narrative of the Dakota people over the centuries in their traditional homelands, the stories behind the profound connections that hold true today.
Giants in the Earth
Giants in the Earth - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Giants in the Earth write by Ole Edvart Rølvaag. This book was released on 1927. Giants in the Earth available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A narrative of pioneer hardship and heroism on the boundless Dakota prairie, as a Norwegian-American immigrant family passed through Ellis Island and worked to eke out a living in America's midwest.
A Thrilling Narrative of Indian Captivity
A Thrilling Narrative of Indian Captivity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Thrilling Narrative of Indian Captivity write by Mary Butler Renville. This book was released on 2012-06-01. A Thrilling Narrative of Indian Captivity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This edition of A Thrilling Narrative of Indian Captivity rescues from obscurity a crucially important work about the bitterly contested U.S.-Dakota War of 1862. Written by Mary Butler Renville, an Anglo woman, with the assistance of her Dakota husband, John Baptiste Renville, A Thrilling Narrative was printed only once as a book in 1863 and has not been republished since. The work details the Renvilles’ experiences as “captives” among their Dakota kin in the Upper Camp and chronicles the story of the Dakota Peace Party. Their sympathetic portrayal of those who opposed the war in 1862 combats the stereotypical view that most Dakotas supported it and illumines the injustice of their exile from Dakota homelands. From the authors’ unique perspective as an interracial couple, they paint a complex picture of race, gender, and class relations on successive midwestern frontiers. As the state of Minnesota commemorates the 150th anniversary of the Dakota War, this narrative provides fresh insights into the most controversial event in the region’s history. This annotated edition includes groundbreaking historical and literary contexts for the text and a first-time collection of extant Dakota correspondence with authorities during the war.
