Category: Biographies
1837.--Our Parentage.--My Mother's Bear Story.--Mary's Education.--Her First School Teaching.--School-houses and Teachers in Ohio.--Learning the Catechism.--Ambitions.--The Lord's Leading.--Mary's Teaching in Bethlehem.--Life Threads Coming Together.--Licensure.--Our Decision...
1871-1877.--The Wilder Sioux.--Gradual Openings.--Thomas Lawrence.--Visit to the Land of the Teetons.--Fort Sully.--Hope Station.--Mrs. General Stanley in the _Evangelist_.--Wor...
40. CHAPTER XIX.1873-1874.--The American Board at Minneapolis.--The _Nidus_ of the Dakota Mission.--Large Indian Delegation.--Ehnamane and Mazakootemane.--"Then and Now."--The Woman's Meeting.-...
23. CHAPTER II.1837.--First Knowledge of the Sioux.--Hennepin and Du Luth.--Fort Snelling.--Lakes Harriet and Calhoun.--Three Months at Lake Harriet.--Samuel W. Pond.--Learning the Language.--...
27. CHAPTER VI.1843-1846.--Great Sorrow.--Thomas Drowned.--Mary's Letter.--The Indians' Thoughts.--Old Gray-Leaf.--Oxen Killed.--Hard Field.--Sleepy Eyes' Horse.--Indian in Prison.--The Lord K...
24. CHAPTER III.1837-1839.--The Language.--Its Growth.--System of Notation.--After Changes.--What We Had to Put into the Language.--Teaching English and Teaching Dakota.--Mary's Letter.--Fort R...
28. CHAPTER VII.1846-1851.--Returning to Lac-qui-parle.--Reasons Therefor.--Mary's Story.--"Give Me My Old Seat, Mother."--At Lac-qui-parle.--New Arrangements.--Better Understanding.--Buffalo P...
39. CHAPTER XVIII.1870-1873.--A. L. Riggs Builds at Santee.--The Santee High School.--Visit to Fort Sully.--Change of Agents at Sisseton.--Second Marriage.--Annual Meeting at Good Will.--Grand Ga...
32. CHAPTER XI.1861-1862.--Republican Administration.--Its Mistakes.--Changing Annuities.--Results.--Returning from General Assembly.--A Marriage in St. Paul.--D. Wilson Moore and Wife.--Delay...
33. CHAPTER XII.1862.--General Sibley's Expedition.--I Go as Chaplain.--At Fort Ridgely.--The Burial Party.--Birch Coolie Defeat.--Simon and Lorenzo Bring in Captives.--March to Yellow Medicine...
41. CHAPTER XX.1875-1876.--Annual Meeting of 1875.--Homestead Settlement on the Big Sioux.--Interest of the Conference.--_Iapi Oaye._--Inception of Native Missionary Work.--Theological Class.-...
26. CHAPTER V.1840-1843.--Dakota Braves.--Simon Anawangmane.--Mary's Letter.--Simon's Fall.--Maple Sugar.--Adobe Church.--Catharine's Letter.--Another Letter of Mary's.--Left Hand's Case.--Th...
22. CHAPTER I.1837.--Our Parentage.--My Mother's Bear Story.--Mary's Education.--Her First School Teaching.--School-houses and Teachers in Ohio.--Learning the Catechism.--Ambitions.--The Lord...
34. CHAPTER XIII.1862-1863.--Military Commission.--Excited Community.--Dakotas Condemned.--Moving Camp.--The Campaign Closed.--Findings Sent to the President.--Reaching My Home in St. Anthony.--...
38. CHAPTER XVII.1870-1871.--Beloit Home Broken Up.--Building on the Sisseton Reserve.--Difficulties and Cost.--Correspondence with Washington.--Order to Suspend Work.--Disregarding the Taboo.--...
36. CHAPTER XV.1866-1869.--Prisoners Meet their Families at the Niobrara.--Our Summer's Visitation.--At the Scouts' Camp.--Crossing the Prairie.--Killing Buffalo.--At Niobrara.--Religious Meet...
25. CHAPTER IV.1838-1840.--"Eagle Help."--His Power as War Prophet.--Makes No-Flight Dance.--We Pray Against It.--Unsuccessful on the War-Path.--Their Revenge.--Jean Nicollet and J. C. Fremont...
37. CHAPTER XVI.1869-1870.--Home Desolate.--At the General Assembly.--Summer Campaign.--A. L. Riggs.--His Story of Early Life.--Inside View of Missions.--Why Missionaries' Children Become Missi...
29. CHAPTER VIII.1851-1854.--Grammar and Dictionary.--How It Grew.--Publication.--Minnesota Historical Society.--Smithsonian Institution.--Going East.--Mission Meeting at Traverse des Sioux.--Mr...
35. CHAPTER XIV.1863-1866.--The Dakota Prisoners Taken to Davenport.--Camp McClellan.--Their Treatment.--Great Mortality.--Education in Prison.--Worship.--Church Matters.--The Camp at Snelling...
30. CHAPTER IX.1854-1856.--Simon Anawangmane.--Rebuilding after the Fire.--Visit of Secretary Treat.--Change of Plan.--Hazelwood Station.--Circular Saw Mill.--Mission Buildings.--Chapel.--Civi...
31. CHAPTER X.1857-1862.--Spirit Lake.--Massacres by Inkpadoota.--The Captives.--Delivery of Mrs. Marble and Miss Gardner.--Excitement.--Inkpadoota's Son Killed.--United States Soldiers.--Maj...
21. CHAPTER XXI.1871-1877.--The Wilder Sioux.--Gradual Openings.--Thomas Lawrence.--Visit to the Land of the Teetons.--Fort Sully.--Hope Station.--Mrs. General Stanley in the _Evangelist_.--Wor...
19. CHAPTER XIX.1873-1874.--The American Board at Minneapolis.--The _Nidus_ of the Dakota Mission.--Large Indian Delegation.--Ehnamane and Mazakootemane.--"Then and Now."--The Woman's Meeting.-...
3. CHAPTER III.1837-1839.--The Language.--Its Growth.--System of Notation.--After Changes.--What We Had to Put into the Language.--Teaching English and Teaching Dakota.--Mary's Letter.--Fort R...
11. CHAPTER XI.1861-1862.--Republican Administration.--Its Mistakes.--Changing Annuities.--Results.--Returning from General Assembly.--A Marriage in St. Paul.--D. Wilson Moore and Wife.--Delay...
13. CHAPTER XIII.1862-1863.--Military Commission.--Excited Community.--Dakotas Condemned.--Moving Camp.--The Campaign Closed.--Findings Sent to the President.--Reaching My Home in St. Anthony.--...
15. CHAPTER XV.1866-1869.--Prisoners Meet their Families at the Niobrara.--Our Summer's Visitation.--At the Scouts' Camp.--Crossing the Prairie.--Killing Buffalo.--At Niobrara.--Religious Meet...
18. CHAPTER XVIII.1870-1873.--A. L. Riggs Builds at Santee.--The Santee High School.--Visit to Fort Sully.--Change of Agents at Sisseton.--Second Marriage.--Annual Meeting at Good Will.--Grand Ga...
2. CHAPTER II.1837.--First Knowledge of the Sioux.--Hennepin and Du Luth.--Fort Snelling.--Lakes Harriet and Calhoun.--Three Months at Lake Harriet.--Samuel W. Pond.--Learning the Language.--...
1. CHAPTER I.1837.--Our Parentage.--My Mother's Bear Story.--Mary's Education.--Her First School Teaching.--School-houses and Teachers in Ohio.--Learning the Catechism.--Ambitions.--The Lord...
4. CHAPTER IV.1838-1840.--"Eagle Help."--His Power as War Prophet.--Makes No-Flight Dance.--We Pray Against It.--Unsuccessful on the War-Path.--Their Revenge.--Jean Nicollet and J. C. Fremont...
20. CHAPTER XX.1875-1876.--Annual Meeting of 1875.--Homestead Settlement on the Big Sioux.--Interest of the Conference.--_Iapi Oaye._--Inception of Native Missionary Work.--Theological Class.-...
17. CHAPTER XVII.1870-1871.--Beloit Home Broken Up.--Building on the Sisseton Reserve.--Difficulties and Cost.--Correspondence with Washington.--Order to Suspend Work.--Disregarding the Taboo.--...
8. CHAPTER VIII.1851-1854.--Grammar and Dictionary.--How It Grew.--Publication.--Minnesota Historical Society.--Smithsonian Institution.--Going East.--Mission Meeting at Traverse des Sioux.--Mr...
16. CHAPTER XVI.1869-1870.--Home Desolate.--At the General Assembly.--Summer Campaign.--A. L. Riggs.--His Story of Early Life.--Inside View of Missions.--Why Missionaries' Children Become Missi...
7. CHAPTER VII.1846-1851.--Returning to Lac-qui-parle.--Reasons Therefor.--Mary's Story.--"Give Me My Old Seat, Mother."--At Lac-qui-parle.--New Arrangements.--Better Understanding.--Buffalo P...
5. CHAPTER V.1840-1843.--Dakota Braves.--Simon Anawangmane.--Mary's Letter.--Simon's Fall.--Maple Sugar.--Adobe Church.--Catharine's Letter.--Another Letter of Mary's.--Left Hand's Case.--Th...
14. CHAPTER XIV.1863-1866.--The Dakota Prisoners Taken to Davenport.--Camp McClellan.--Their Treatment.--Great Mortality.--Education in Prison.--Worship.--Church Matters.--The Camp at Snelling...
6. CHAPTER VI.1843-1846.--Great Sorrow.--Thomas Drowned.--Mary's Letter.--The Indians' Thoughts.--Old Gray-Leaf.--Oxen Killed.--Hard Field.--Sleepy Eyes' Horse.--Indian in Prison.--The Lord K...
12. CHAPTER XII.1862.--General Sibley's Expedition.--I Go as Chaplain.--At Fort Ridgely.--The Burial Party.--Birch Coolie Defeat.--Simon and Lorenzo Bring in Captives.--March to Yellow Medicine...
10. CHAPTER X.1857-1862.--Spirit Lake.--Massacres by Inkpadoota.--The Captives.--Delivery of Mrs. Marble and Miss Gardner.--Excitement.--Inkpadoota's Son Killed.--United States Soldiers.--Maj...
9. CHAPTER IX.1854-1856.--Simon Anawangmane.--Rebuilding after the Fire.--Visit of Secretary Treat.--Change of Plan.--Hazelwood Station.--Circular Saw Mill.--Mission Buildings.--Chapel.--Civi...