MS 3334 Copy and translation of a letter in Dakota
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: NAA MS 3334
name: label: Translator
content: Drift, Ivan
label: Addressee
content: Polk, James K. (James Knox), 1795-1849
label: Correspondent
content: Hupakinyan
label: Correspondent
content: Inyangmani
topic: label: Topic
content: Language and languages -- Documentation
label: Topic
content: Sioux (Eastern)
creator: label: Translator
content: Drift, Ivan
label: Addressee
content: Polk, James K. (James Knox), 1795-1849
label: Correspondent
content: Hupakinyan
label: Correspondent
content: Inyangmani
culture: label: Culture
content: Dakota (Eastern Sioux)
label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- Great Plains
label: Culture
content: Sioux
unitdate: label: Date
content: undated
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.MS3334
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: Original of the Dakota letter, enclosed in a letter from Stephen R. Riggs to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, December 22, 1847, is in the U.S. National Archives, Record Group 75, Letters Received by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, St. Peter's Agency, 1848, D. no. R 138.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: With interlinear translations, from Hupa kinyan [--- Flying] and Inyan mani [Walking Stone] to President Polk. Manuscript document, 2 pages including free English translation by Drift with the assistance of Ben McBride, Sr. Manuscript document, 2 pages. Letter from Drift to --- Welch, regarding translation. Autograph letter signed, 1 page. Unsigned memo to J.P. Harrington, Bureau of American Ethnology, enclosing the above. May 20, 1935. Typescript document, 1 page.