A Dakota-English Dictionary - Riggs, Stephen Return
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"Man's heart away from nature becomes hard." -Luther Standing Bear, Chief, Dakota (Sioux) Native Americans (late 19th Century) A Dakota-English Dictionary (1852) is the seventh volume of a nine-part series Contributions to North American Ethnology (all available from Cosimo Classics). At the time, the Dakota language consisted of three well-defined dialects: the Santee, Yankton, and Teton. This is the most comprehensive lexicon available that lists all the words in their combined vocabularies and their English translations. This book offers a critical contribution to the history of Native…mehr

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"Man's heart away from nature becomes hard." -Luther Standing Bear, Chief, Dakota (Sioux) Native Americans (late 19th Century) A Dakota-English Dictionary (1852) is the seventh volume of a nine-part series Contributions to North American Ethnology (all available from Cosimo Classics). At the time, the Dakota language consisted of three well-defined dialects: the Santee, Yankton, and Teton. This is the most comprehensive lexicon available that lists all the words in their combined vocabularies and their English translations. This book offers a critical contribution to the history of Native Americans and is a must-read for anthropologists, linguists, and students of Native American history.
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STEPHEN RETURN RIGGS (1812-1883) was a missionary and linguist who spent his entire career, starting at the age of 25, living and working among the Dakota Sioux tribes in the territory that is now Minnesota.