Dakota Life In The Upper Midwest

Author : Samuel W. Pond
Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society Press
ISBN 13 : 0873516656
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dakota Life in the Upper Midwest written by Samuel W. Pond and published by Minnesota Historical Society Press. This book was released on 2008-10-14 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1834 Samuel W. Pond and his brother Gideon built a cabin near Cloud Man's village of the Dakota Indians on the shore of Like Calhoun--now present-day Minneapolis--intending to preach Christianity to the Indians. The brothers were to spend nearly twenty years learning the Dakota language and observing how the Indians live. In the 1860s and 1870s, after the Dakota had fought a disastrous war with the whites who had taken their land, Samuel Pond recorded his recollection of the indians "to show what manner of people the Dakotas were... while they still retained the customs of their ancestors." Pond's work, first published in 1908, is now considered classic. Gary Clayton Anderson's introduction discusses Pond's career and the effects of his background on this work, "unrivaled today for its discussion of Dakota material culture and social, political, religious, and economic institutions."

Author : Samuel William Pond
Publisher : Borealis Book
ISBN 13 : 9780873514552
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dakota Life in the Upper Midwest written by Samuel William Pond and published by Borealis Book. This book was released on 2002 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classic work detailing the lives and customs of the 19th-century Dakota living near present-day Minneapolis.

Author : Eileen M. McMahon
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 0299234231
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book North Woods River written by Eileen M. McMahon and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2009-10-20 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The St. Croix River, the free-flowing boundary between Wisconsin and Minnesota, is a federally protected National Scenic Riverway. The area’s first recorded human inhabitants were the Dakota Indians, whose lands were transformed by fur trade empires and the loggers who called it the “river of pine.” A patchwork of farms, cultivated by immigrants from many countries, followed the cutover forests. Today, the St. Croix River Valley is a tourist haven in the land of sky-blue waters and a peaceful escape for residents of the bustling Minneapolis–St. Paul metropolitan region. North Woods River is a thoughtful biography of the river over the course of more than three hundred years. Eileen McMahon and Theodore Karamanski track the river’s social and environmental transformation as newcomers changed the river basin and, in turn, were changed by it. The history of the St. Croix revealed here offers larger lessons about the future management of beautiful and fragile wild waters.

Author : Mary E. Cochran
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803264458
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dakota Cross-Bearer written by Mary E. Cochran and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2004-04-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dakota Cross-Bearer is the story of Harold S. Jones, a Dakota Indian born in 1909 and raised on the Santee Reservation in Nebraska, who rose through the ranks of the Episcopal Church to become the first Native bishop of a Christian church. Jones's biography sheds light on the importance of Christianity for the Dakotas and other Native peoples during the twentieth century. His story yields insights into the history of twentieth-century missionary activity among Native communities and illuminates instances of conflict and discrimination within the Episcopal Church, the processes of clerical training and testing, and the demands of constant relocation. Mary E. Cochran is the wife of an Episcopal bishop who worked on the Standing Rock Reservation and who later was named bishop of Alaska. She and her husband live in Tacoma, Washington. Raymond A. Bucko, S.J., a Catholic priest, is the director of the Native American Studies Program and an associate professor of anthropology at Creighton University. He is the author of The Lakota Ritual of the Sweat Lodge: History and Contemporary Practice (Nebraska 1998). Martin Brokenleg, an enrolled member of the Sicangu Lakota, is a professor of Native American studies at Augustana College and an Episcopal priest. He is a coauthor of Reclaiming Youth at Risk: Our Hope for the Future.

Author : Teresa Marrone
Publisher : Adventure Publications
ISBN 13 : 1647550297
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mushrooms of the Upper Midwest written by Teresa Marrone and published by Adventure Publications. This book was released on 2020-02-25 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Begin to Identify Mushrooms with this Great Visual Guide for the Upper Midwest! Mushrooming is a popular and rewarding pastime—and it’s one that you can enjoy with the right information at hand. Mushrooms of the Upper Midwest is the field guide to get you started. The region-specific book utilizes an innovative, user-friendly format that can help you identify mushrooms by their visual characteristics. Hundreds of full-color photographs are paired with easy-to-understand text, providing the details to give you confidence in the field. The information, written by foraging experts Teresa Marrone and Kathy Yerich, is accessible to beginners but useful for even experienced mushroom seekers. Learn about nearly 400 species of common wild mushrooms found in the Midwestern states of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wisconsin. The species (from Morel Mushrooms to Shelf Mushrooms) are organized by shape, then by color, so you can identify them by their visual characteristics. Plus, with the Top Edibles and Top Toxics sections, you'll begin to learn which are the edible wild mushrooms and which to avoid. Get this field guide, jam-packed with information, and start identifying the mushrooms you find.

Author : Mary Lethert Wingerd
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 0816648689
Total Pages : 600 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book North Country written by Mary Lethert Wingerd and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1862, four years after Minnesota was ratified as the thirty-second state in the Union, simmering tensions between indigenous Dakota and white settlers culminated in the violent, six-week-long U.S.-Dakota War. Hundreds of lives were lost on both sides, and the war ended with the execution of thirty-eight Dakotas on December 26, 1862, in Mankato, Minnesota--the largest mass execution in American history. The following April, after suffering a long internment at Fort Snelling, the Dakota and Winnebago peoples were forcefully removed to South Dakota, precipitating the near destruction of the area's native communities while simultaneously laying the foundation for what we know and recognize today as Minnesota. In North Country: The Making of Minnesota, Mary Lethert Wingerd unlocks the complex origins of the state--origins that have often been ignored in favor of legend and a far more benign narrative of immigration, settlement, and cultural exchange. Moving from the earliest years of contact between Europeans and the indigenous peoples of the western Great Lakes region to the era of French and British influence during the fur trade and beyond, Wingerd charts how for two centuries prior to official statehood Native people and Europeans in the region maintained a hesitant, largely cobeneficial relationship. Founded on intermarriage, kinship, and trade between the two parties, this racially hybridized society was a meeting point for cultural and economic exchange until the western expansion of American capitalism and violation of treaties by the U.S. government during the 1850s wore sharply at this tremulous bond, ultimately leading to what Wingerd calls Minnesota's Civil War. A cornerstone text in the chronicle of Minnesota's history, Wingerd's narrative is augmented by more than 170 illustrations chosen and described by Kirsten Delegard in comprehensive captions that depict the fascinating, often haunting representations of the region and its inhabitants over two and a half centuries. North Country is the unflinching account of how the land the Dakota named Mini Sota Makoce became the State of Minnesota and of the people who have called it, at one time or another, home.

Author : Cheri Register
Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society
ISBN 13 : 0873519965
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Big Marsh written by Cheri Register and published by Minnesota Historical Society. This book was released on 2016-05-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Under the corn and soybean fields of southern Minnesota lies the memory of vast, age-old wetlands, drained away over the last 130 years in the name of agricultural progress. But not everyone saw wetlands as wasteland. Before 1900, Freeborn County’s Big Marsh provided a wealth of resources for the neighboring communities. Families hunted its immense flocks of migrating waterfowl, fished its waters, trapped muskrats and mink, and harvested wood and medicinal plants. As farmland prices rose, however, the value of the land under the water became more attractive to people with capital. While residents fought bitterly, powerful outside investors overrode local opposition and found a way to drain 18,000 acres of wetland at public expense. Author Cheri Register stumbled upon her great-grandfather’s scathing critique of the draining and was intrigued. Following the clues he left, she uncovers the stories of life on the Big Marsh and of the “connivers” who plotted its end: the Minneapolis land developer, his local fixer, an Illinois banker, and the lovelorn local lawyer who did their footwork. The Big Marsh, an environmental history told from a personal point of view, shows the enduring value of wild places and the importance of the fight to preserve them, both then and now.

Author : Donald Bert Cullum
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0557489156
Total Pages : 97 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Country Life the Upper Midwest written by Donald Bert Cullum and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-07-25 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reflected within you will find unspoiled beauty and culture of rural community where life remains less complicated and more wholesome. A place where neighbors know each other, share a common strong work ethic and value the soul. “Country Life, the Upper Midwest†contains description, photographs, art, and poetry orchestrated so as to take you on a journey into the country, into the rural life of which so many of us cherish and many more long for. Turn the pages and let your mind travel to the place dear to your heart where there is a scent of fresh turned soil, fresh cut hay, sounds of mourning doves, geese, ducks, and an un-obscured view of the northern lights, sunrises and sunsets. Welcome home to where your heart is.

Author : Robert Woutat
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595284477
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dakota Boy written by Robert Woutat and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2003-07 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of a man's childhood in North Dakota's Red River Valley in the 1940's and early 1950's, depicting the haphazard, often comical, hit-and-miss process by which the child and adolescent tries to build an identity.

Author : Gwen Westerman
Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society
ISBN 13 : 0873518837
Total Pages : 531 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mni Sota Makoce written by Gwen Westerman and published by Minnesota Historical Society. This book was released on 2012 with total page 531 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intricate narrative of the Dakota people over the centuries in their traditional homelands, the stories behind the profound connections that hold true today.