Dakota life in the upper Midwest
By: Samuel W. Pond ; with an introduction by Gary Clayton Anderson.
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: St. Paul
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
Subjects: Mdewakanton Indians -- Material culture.; Mdewakanton Indians -- Rites and ceremonies.; Mdewakanton Indians -- Social life and customs.
Description: "In 1834 Samuel W. Pond and his brother Gideon arrived in 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 considered a classic. Gary Clayton Anderson's introduction discusses Pond's career and the effects of his background on this work, "unrivaled today for its discussion of Dakota material culture and social, political, religious, and economic institutions.""--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
This edition previously published: The Dakota or Sioux in Minnesota as they were in 1834. St. Paul : Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1986.
Originally published: The Dakotas or Sioux in Minnesota as they were in 1834, in Collections of the Minnesota Historical Society ; v. 12 (1908).