A necessary companion to A Dakota-English Dictionary.

Excerpt from A Dakota-English Dictionary The original work of Messrs. Riggs and Dorsey, with other materials already published, will place the Siouan languages on record more thor oughly than those of any other family in this country. The accompanying letter of transmittal gives the reasons for the publi cation of the dictionary before that of the grammar, texts, and ethnography. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

"Man's heart away from nature becomes hard." -Luther Standing Bear, Chief, Dakota (Sioux) Native Americans (late 19th Century) A Dakota-English Dictionary (1852) is the seventh volume of a nine-part series Contributions to North American Ethnology (all available from Cosimo Classics). At the time, the Dakota language consisted of three well-defined dialects: the Santee, Yankton, and Teton. This is the most comprehensive lexicon available that lists all the words in their combined vocabularies and their English translations. This book offers a critical contribution to the history of Native Americans and is a must-read for anthropologists, linguists, and students of Native American history.