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In 1834 Samuel W. Pond and his brother Gideon built a cabin near Cloud Man's village of the Dakota Indians on the shore of Like Calhoun--now 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 live. 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 recollection 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 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."

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Sociology & anthropology

• Full title: Dakota Life in the Upper Midwest
• Author: Samuel W. Pond
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 214
• EAN: 9780873514552
• ISBN: 9780873514552
• ID: 06443140
• Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press,U.S.
• Weight: 292 g
• Dimensions: 222 × 151 × 14 mm
• Date of publishing: 05. February 2003

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