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Candi Token Wayusica.
Santee, NE: Santee Normal Training School Press, 1903 12mo (6.375” x 4.375”), illustrated self wrappers. 8 pp. CONDITION: Very good. A sermon against the use of tobacco by a prominent white member of Indigenous rights associations in the late 1800s. A pamphlet in Dakota “against the traditional use of tobacco and giving warnings about the end times” (“Candi Token”). Instruction at the Santee Normal Training School was given in the Santee dialect, and in addition to Iapi Oaye (The 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. Joshua W. Davis was born in Newton, Massachusetts and was a long-time officer in both the Boston branch of the Indian Rights Association and the Boston Indian Citizenship Committee. The latter organization was formed in 1879, in the wake of the eastern tour of Ponca Chief Standing Bear (ca. 1829–1908), whose advocacy and moving lectures also inspired the considerable activism of novelist and poet Helen Hunt Jackson, author of Ramona, the Uncle Tom’s Cabin of “the Indian Question.” Davis “traveled widely in the American West, visiting various Indian reservations and missions” (Wehrkamp). OCLC records seven holdings, of which one is in Britain; we locate another at the Nebraska State Historical Society. REFERENCES: “Candi Token Wayusica” at Minnesota Digital Library online; Wehrkamp, Tim. “Manuscript Sources in Sioux Indian History at the Historical Resource Center,” South Dakota History Vol. 8 (1978), p. 151; Mathes, Valerie Sherer and Phil Brigandi. “Charles C. Painter, Helen Hunt Jackson and the Mission Indians of Southern California,” Journal of San Diego History Vol. 55., No. 3 (2009).
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