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Title

Dakota grammar : with texts and ethnography / Stephen R. Riggs ; edited with a preface by James Owen Dorsey ; introduction by John D. Nichols.

Author

Riggs, Stephen Return, 1812-1883

Publication

St. Paul, MN : Minnesota Historical Society Press, c2004.

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Additional Authors

• Nichols, John (John D.)
• Dorsey, James Owen, 1848-1895.

Description

239 p.; 21 cm.

Summary

"This classic work on the language, grammar, tales, history, and culture of the Dakota Indians is the result of many years of linguistic study and personal experience spent in Minnesota by Stephen R. Riggs, who arrived as a Presbyterian missionary in 1837 ... In Dakota grammar, Riggs presents three interrelating aspects of language and culture, beginning with a detailed description of the Santee dialect of the Dakota language and its grammar. The texts of the traditional stories ... are each accompanied by full English translations. Riggs also provides an ethnographic overview of various aspects of Dakota culture and history that enhances the value of the book to all students of Dakota"--Back cover.

Uniform Title

Dakota grammar, texts, and ethnography

Alternative Title

Dakota grammar, texts, and ethnography

Subject

• Dakota language
• Dakota Indians

Note

• "First published in 1893 by the Department of the Interior, U.S. Geographical and Geological Survey of the Rocky Mountain Region, as Contributions to North American ethnology, volume 9."
• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Pt. First. Grammar -- pt. Second. Texts (Wićanlipi hinlipaya: the fallen star -- Wotaniće hoksina olian kin: acts of the Blood-Clots Boy -- Legend of the head of gold -- Odowan śigśiće: bad songs -- Tasinta-yukipkipi -- Chee-zhon, the thief -- The younger brother: or, The unvisited island -- Waninuha Itagośa: or, Bead-spitter -- parable of the prodigal son: Luke XV, 11-32 -- The Lord's Prayer -- The Fourth Commandment) -- pt. third. Ethnology. 1. The Dakota (Tribes: Mdewakanton ; Wapekute ; Walipetonwan ; Sisitonwan ; Ihanktonwan ; Ihanktonwanna ; Titonwan ; Assiniboin -- Priority -- Method of counting -- Method of reckoning time -- Are the Indians diminishing?) -- 2. Migrations of the Dakotas (Argument from history: experiences of Nicolet, Le Jeune, Raymbault, Menard, Allouez, Du Luth, La Salle, Hennepin, Perrot, Le Sueur, Carver, and Pike ; tradition of Fort Berthold Indians, recorded by Dr. W. Matthews ; L:ewis and Clarke -- Argument from names of nations, tribes, etc.: Dakota (Spirit Lake villages ; Santee -- Sisseton -- Yankton ; Yanktonai ; Teton ; Assiniboin ; Winnebago ; Omaha and Ponka ; Iowa and Oto ; Mandan and Hidatsa ; Absaroka or Crow ; Osage, Kansa, Kwapa, and Missouri ; Arikara or RIckaree ; Shayenne or Cheyenne) -- 3. The Dakota gens and phratry (The gens -- The phratry: the Ttiyotipi ; fellowhood -- Standing Buffalo -- Tiyotipi, translated from M. Renville's Dakota version) -- 4. Unwritten Dakota laws (The family -- The household -- Courtship and marriage -- The baby -- Child life: training of the boy ; training of the girl -- When death domes -- The spirit-world) -- 5. The superhumans (Ehna-mani -- 6. Armor and eagle's feathers (Simon Anawang-mani) -- 7. Dakota dances (Singing to -- Begging dance -- No-flight dance -- Circle dance -- Scalp dance -- Mystery dance -- Ssun dance).

ISBN

0873514726 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2004004186

OCLC

54503617

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library