Title: Dakota child, governor's daughter
Description: A biography of Helen Hastings Sibley, the daughter of Henry Sibley and a Dakota Indian mother, who spent her childhood with the Brown family in St. Paul where she met her future husband, Sylvester Sawyer, moved to Milwaukee as the wife of a doctor, and died of scarlet fever.
Subjects: Dakota women, Indians of North America, Family, Mixed descent, Indian women, Biography, History
Places: Minnesota
People: Henry Hastings Sibley (1811-1891), Helen Hastings Sibley (1841-1860)