Stephen Return Riggs

Dakota Grammar, Texts, and Ethnography

Along with An English-Dakota Dictionary, this remains the most comprehensive and accurate lexicon available.

A Dakota-English Dictionary

“A” Dakota-English Dictionary

Mary and I. Forty Years with the Sioux

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Collected by the Members of the Dakota Mission

Grammar and Dictionary of the Dakota Language

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Tah-koo Wah-kan

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Or, The Gospel Among the Dakotas

Tah-koo Wah-kań

Tah-Koo Wah-Kan; Or, the Gospel Among the Dakotas. by Stephen R. Riggs ... with an Introd. by S.B. Treat.

"This classic work on the language, grammar, tales, history, and culture of the Dakota Indians is the result of many years of linguistic study and personal experience spent in Minnesota by Stephen R. Riggs, who arrived as a Presbyterian missionary in 1837 ... In Dakota grammar, Riggs presents three interrelating aspects of language and culture, beginning with a detailed description of the Santee dialect of the Dakota language and its grammar. The texts of the traditional stories ... are each accompanied by full English translations. Riggs also provides an ethnographic overview of various aspects of Dakota culture and history that enhances the value of the book to all students of Dakota"--Back cover.

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