The Dakota prisoner of war letters = Dakota Kaŝkapi Okicize Wowapi / Clifford Canku and Michael Simon ; introduction and afterword by John Peacock.

"In April 1863--after the Dakota War of 1862, after the hanging of thirty-eight Dakota men in the largest mass execution in U.S. history--some 270 Dakota men were moved from Mankato, Minnesota, to a prison at Camp McClellan in Davenport, Iowa. Separated from their wives, children, and elder relative...

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Main Author: Canku, Clifford
Language:English
Published: St. Paul, MN : Minnesota Historical Society Press, [2013]
Subjects:
Dakota people > Wars, 1862-1865 > Personal narratives.
Dakota people > Iowa > Davenport Region > Correspondence.
Indigenous prisoners > Iowa > Davenport Region > Correspondence.
Prisoners of war > Iowa > Davenport Region > Correspondence.
Dakota language > Translating into English.
Letters.
Genre:
Personal narratives.
Correspondence.
Letters.
Physical Description:xxx, 225 pages : illustrations, maps ; 28 cm
Variant Title:
Dakota Kaŝkapi Okicize Wowapi. [Parallel title]
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Spiritual foundation: Dakota prisoner of war letters of 1862-1866 / Dr. Clifford Canku
  • Translator's preface / Michael Simon
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introducing the Dakota letters / John Peacock
  • A note on the translations
  • Dakota Alphabet
  • The letters. A woman, April 25, 1863 ; Four lightning / David Faribault, Jr., May 18, 1863 ; Many lightning face and others, June 26, 1863 ; Glowing light, [undated, 1863] ; Truly passes on, [1863 or 1864] ; Augustin Fresneir, March 20, 1864 ; Ruban His sacred nest, April [22], 1864 ; Robert Hopkins/First born son, May 3, 1864 ; Peter his big fire, May 4, [1864] ; James the sacred second son, May 17, 1864 ; Good day, June 12, 1864 ; Iron Elk, June, 1864 ; Robert Hopkins, August 20, 1864 ; Antoine Provençalle, August 22, 1864 ; Appears good and Robert Hopkins, August 24, 1864 ; Appears good, August 28,1864 ; Eli bird came back, October 6, [1864] ; Robert Hopkins, October 24, 1864 ; Elias Ruban They see his ways, November 14, 1864 ; Glowing light, [1864] ; Iron flyer flying by, [1864] ; Iron flyer flying by, [1864]
  • Good-good, [1864] ; Hands to ruin, [1864] ; Old iron man, [1864] ; Comes out of the earth, [1864] ; Stands on earth woman, [1864] ; Frost, [1864 or 1865] ; Frost, [1864] ; Frost, [1864-1865] ; [Frost, 1864 or 1865] ; Thomas Good-Good, [1864] ; Joseph Godfrey, January 21, 1865 ; John Driver, March 6, 1865 ; Elias Ruban they see his ways, April 1, 1865 ; Moses many lightning face, April 7, 1865 ; Moses many lightning face, April 17, 1865 ; Robert Hopkins, April 24,1865 ; Henry now, June 1, [1865] ; Mr. Uses a cane, June 2, 1865 ; Sage, July 7, 1865 ; Elias Ruban they see his ways, November 16, 1865 ; Simon Many lightning, [1865] ; Joseph Old iron man, February 1, 1866 ; Robert Hopkins, February 24, 1866 ; Simon Thomas many lightning, April 8, 1866 ; Walks among the clouds, April 8, 1866 ; Has a woman two places, [1866] ; Flies twice, [1866].
  • Afterword / John Peacock.