Dakota grammar, texts, and ethnography
By: by Stephen Return Riggs ; edited by James Owen Dorsey
Contributors: Dorsey, James Owen, 1848-1895
Series: Contributions to North American ethnology -- v. 9; Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Science, Technology, and Medicine, Part I; Contributions to North American ethnology -- v. 9.; Mis. doc. (United States. Congress. House) -- 53rd Congress, 2nd session, no. 173.; Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Science, Technology, and Medicine, Part I
Publisher: G.P.O.
Published: 1893
Place of publication: Washington
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 239
Subjects: Dakota language; Grammar; Texts; Dakota Indians; Siouan Indians
Notes: At head of title: Department of the Interior, U.S. Geographical and Geological Survey of the Rocky Mountain Region, J.W. Powell, in charge.

Includes index.

Reproduction of the original from the Library of Congress.
Table of contents: title: Part 1. Grammar. Phonology ; Morphology ; Syntax; title: Part 2. Texts. The fallen star ; Acts of the blood-clots boy ; Legend of the head of gold ; Bad songs ; Tasinta-yukikipi ; Chee-zhon, the thief ; The younger brother, or the unvisited island ; Bead-spitter ; Parable of the prodigal son ; The Lord's prayer ; The fourth commandment; title: Part 3. Ethnography. The Dakota ; Migrations of the Dakota ; The Dakota gens and phatry ; Unwritten Dakota laws ; The superhuman ; Armor and eagle's feathers ; Dakota dances.