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Dakota life in the upper Midwest
Record details
- ISBN: 0873514556 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- ISBN: 9780873514552 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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Physical Description:
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xxi, 192 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. - Publisher: St. Paul : Minnesota Historical Society Press, [2002]
Content descriptions
| General Note: | This edition previously published: The Dakota or Sioux in Minnesota as they were in 1834. St. Paul : Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1986. Originally published: The Dakotas or Sioux in Minnesota as they were in 1834, in Collections of the Minnesota Historical Society ; v. 12 (1908). |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Introduction / Gary Clayton Anderson -- Preface -- Subdivisions of the Dakotas in Minnesota -- The chiefs -- White men and half-breeds -- Food, agriculture, game and fish -- Dress and ornaments -- Dwellings and furniture -- Tools and weapons; manufactures -- Domestic animals -- The deer-hunt -- Sugar making and fur hunting -- Summer occupations -- Warlike pursuits -- Industry of the hunter and farmer compared -- Government -- Laws -- Personal appearance -- Natural disposition -- Vices and crimes -- Language and picture writing -- Oratory -- Poetry -- Music and musical instruments -- Notation -- Standards of measure -- Religion and worship -- The medicine dance -- Wakan feasts -- The feast of raw fish -- Heyoka feast -- The sun dance -- Thunder dance -- Making a bear -- The elk dance -- The vapor bath -- Sacrifices and offerings -- Jugglery -- Superstitions -- Belief in immortality -- Recreations -- Gambling -- Social feasts -- The war dance -- Smoking -- Wars -- Marriage customs -- Social and industrial condition of women -- Treatment and education of children -- Personal names -- Adultery and fornication -- Cleanliness -- Swimming -- Diseases -- Insanity -- Deformity and idiocy -- Surgery and medicine -- Burial customs and mourning -- Traffic and presents -- Traditions - Concluding remarks -- Index. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Lummi Library | E 99 .M435 P66 2002 | 266246 | Stacks | Available | - |