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Śunkawakan Wicayuhapi.
Santee, Nebraska: Santee Normal Training School Press, 1894 16mo (5” x 3.5”), original illustrated wrappers. 8 pp. CONDITION: Very good. A primer “on the care of horses,” translated into the Santee dialect by a female missionary and published at the Santee Normal Training School in Nebraska a generation after the U.S. abrogated all treaties with the Dakota and removed them from their homelands in Minnesota. The twenty-six brief, numbered sections in this children’s primer are followed by a verse from Proverbs: “The righteous care for the needs of their animals, but the kindest acts of the wicked are cruel.” Instruction at the Santee Normal Training School was given in the Santee dialect, and in addition to Iapi Oaye (“Word Carrier,” the dual-language newspaper) and smaller tracts on the institution and its activities intended for a broader audience, the school press focused primarily on educational materials. Mary P. Lord of Wellesley, Massachusetts worked as a missionary among the Dakota Sioux for some seven years in the late 1890s and early 1900s, collaborating and corresponding with fellow missionaries Mary C. Collins (1846–1920) and Santee Normal Training School founder Thomas L. Riggs. In 1902 she made a statement before Congress in regarding U.S. plans to lease Standing Rock Reservation lands in Nebraska for cattle ranching. REFERENCES: Williamson, Rev. T. S., trans. Wicoicage, Hdinanpapi, Lewi Toope, Qa Wicayawapi. The First Four Books of Moses in the Dakota Language (New York: American Bible Society, 1872), p. 146; Lord, Mary P. “Rev. Mary C. Collins,” The Word Carrier, Sept. 1, 1920, p. 3; “Sunkawakan Wicayuhapi” at Minnesota Digital Library.
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