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Dakota grammar, texts, and ethnography by Stephen Return Riggs ; edited by James Owen Dorsey.
Gale Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Science, Technology and Medicine, 1780-1925 Available online
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- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- Riggs, Stephen Return, 1812-1883.
- Series:
- Contributions to North American ethnology ; v. 9.
- Mis. doc. (United States. Congress. House) ; 53rd Congress, 2nd session, no. 173.
- Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Science, Technology, and Medicine, Part I.
- Contributions to North American ethnology ; v. 9
- Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Science, Technology, and Medicine, Part I
- Language:
- Dakota
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dakota language--Grammar.
- Dakota language.
- Dakota language--Texts.
- Dakota Indians.
- Siouan Indians.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource ([iii]-xxxii, 239 p.).
- Place of Publication:
- Washington : G.P.O., 1893.
- Contents:
- Part 1. Grammar. Phonology ; Morphology ; Syntax
- Part 2. Texts. The fallen star ; Acts of the blood-clots boy ; Legend of the head of gold ; Bad songs ; Tasinta-yukikipi ; Chee-zhon, the thief ; The younger brother, or the unvisited island ; Bead-spitter ; Parable of the prodigal son ; The Lord's prayer ; The fourth commandment
- Part 3. Ethnography. The Dakota ; Migrations of the Dakota ; The Dakota gens and phatry ; Unwritten Dakota laws ; The superhuman ; Armor and eagle's feathers ; Dakota dances.
- Notes:
- At head of title: Department of the Interior, U.S. Geographical and Geological Survey of the Rocky Mountain Region, J.W. Powell, in charge.
- Includes index.
- Reproduction of the original from the Library of Congress.
- OCLC:
- 768327702
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