Category: Biographies

Mary and I: Forty Years with the Sioux

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...

Chapters

42. 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...

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...