Object Record
Metadata
Accession number |
P7 |
Title |
The New Testament, translated into Dakota. DAKOTA WOWAPI WAKAN KIN |
Date |
1866 |
Notes |
The Dakota or Sioux Indians came from the northeast and moved westward, occupying large areas of the Great Plains by the nineteenth century. The name Sioux was a French mispronunciation of an Algonquian word, whereas Dakota was the Indians' own term. Their territory was reduced to southwestern Dakota by 1878, and the ensuing decade of conflict is remembered in the names of chiefs Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, and Red Cloud. In 1886 an Indian commissioner attempted to suppress the language and religious worship in it. The Dakotas now live on reservations from Montana to Minnesota. Parts of the Bible began to be printed in Dakota in 1839. The New Testament was published in 1865, the complete Bible in 1879. The translators were Thomas SA. Williamson and Stephen R. Riggs. |
Collection |
Framed Bible Leaves |
Subjects |
Bible Leaves Bible History Native American |