These are some of the many books related to Dakota genealogy in the MNHS Library. To find more, search the library catalog by subject headings such as:
Dakota Indians -- Biography;
Dakota Indians -- Genealogy -- Sources, etc.
Native American Genealogical Sourcebook, edited by Paula K. Byers.
New York, NY: Gale Research, 1995.
MNHS call number: Reading Room E98.G44 N37 1995
550 Dakota Verbs, compiled and edited by Harlan LaFontaine (Sunkmanitu Hotanka) and Neil McKay (Cantemaza).
St. Paul, MN: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2004.
MNHS call number: Reading Room PM1022.L34 2004, also available for purchase
A Dakota-English Dictionary, by Stephen Return Riggs.
St. Paul, MN: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1992.
MNHS call number: PM1023.R55 1992, also available for purchase
Dakota Grammar: With Texts and Ethnography, by Stephen R. Riggs.
St. Paul, MN: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2004.
MNHS call number: Reading Room PM 1021.R48 2004, also available for purchase
Dakota Identity in Minnesota, 1820-1995 by Carolyn Ruth Anderson.
Thesis, Indiana University, 1997.
MNHS call number: E99 .D1 A47 1997
The Dakota or Sioux in Minnesota as They Were in 1834, by Samuel W. Pond.
St. Paul, MN: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1986.
MNHS call number: Reading Room E99 .M435 P66 1986
An English-Dakota Dictionary, by John P. Williamson
St. Paul, MN: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1992.
MNHS call number: Reading Room PM1023.W62 1992, also available for purchase
The Flandrau Papers: Treasure Trove for Mixed Blood Dakota Indian Genealogy, by Mary Bakeman
Roseville, MN: Park Genealogical Books, 1997.
MNHS call number: E99.D1 F56 1997
History of the Santee Sioux: United States Indian Policy on Trial, by Roy W. Meyer.
Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1993.
MNHS call number: Reading Room E99.S22 M4 1993
Kinsmen of another kind: Dakota-White Relations in the Upper Mississippi Valley, 1650-1862, by Gary Clayton Anderson.
St. Paul, MN: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1997.
MNHS call number: E99.D1 A48 1997, also available for purchase
Lower Sioux Community: Past and Present History, by Lower Sioux Indian Community in the State of Minnesota.
Morton, MN: The Community, 1993.
MNHS call number: E99.D1 L785 1993
Mdewakanton Dakota Women: Active Participants in Mdewakantonwan Cultural Transformations, 1860-1900, by Barbara Yvonne Feezor.
Thesis, University of California, Los Angeles, 1994.
MNHS call number: E99.M435 F44 1994
The Mystic Lake Sioux: Sociology of the Mdewakantonwan Santee, by Ruth Landes.
Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1968.
MNHS call number: Reading Room E99.M435 L3
Remember This!: Dakota Decolonization and the Eli Taylor Narratives, by Waziyatawin Angela Wilson.
Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2005.
MNHS call number: E99.D1 W83 2005
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