A Dakota-English Dictionary: Volume VII

By Stephen Return Riggs

Book Overview

"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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1646796365
• ISBN13: 9781646796366
• Release Date: April 1890
• Publisher: Cosimo Classics
• Length: 678 Pages
• Weight: 1.87 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"