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Daybreak Woman : an Anglo-Dakota life / Jane Lamm Carroll.

By: Publisher: St. Paul, MN : Minnesota Historical Society Press, [2020]Description: 288 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1681341662
  • 9781681341668
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 970.3 23
  • 977.600497 23
LOC classification:
  • F606 .C37 2020
Contents:
Introduction: Lake Huron, 1836 -- Mississippi River, 1812-1823: Prairie du Chien -- Lake Huron, 1823-1837: Drummond Island, Mackinac Island, Coldwater -- Mississippi River, 1837-1853: Grey Cloud Island, Kap'oja -- Minnesota River, 1853-1860: Yellow Medicine Agency, Redwood Agency -- Minnesota River, 1860-August 17, 1862: Beaver Creek, Redwood Agency -- Minnesota River, August 18-August 26, 1862: Redwood Agency, Beaver Creek, Yellow Medicine Agency, Little Crow's Camp -- Minnesota River, August 26-October 5, 1862: Yellow Medicine, Camp Release -- Minnesota River, October 6-November 4, 1862: Camp Release, Redwood Agency -- Mississippi and Missouri Rivers, 1862-1866: Fort Snelling, Crow Creek -- Cannon and Straight Rivers, 1862-1868: Faribault -- Minnesota River and Lake Traverse, 1868-1904: Lake Traverse Reservation and Beaver Falls -- Epilogue -- Appendix 1: Daybreak Woman's family ; 2: The Santee Dakota and the fur trade: women in nineteenth-century Dakota culture ; 3: Anglo-Dakota daughters in nineteenth-century Minnesota.
Summary: A woman's remarkable life provides a new perspective on a century of turbulent change.Summary: Daybreak Woman, (also known as Jane Anderson Robertson), the daughter of an Anglo-Canadian trader and a Scots-Dakota woman, was born at a trading post on the Minnesota River in 1810. When she died in 1904, after having lived in the region all those years, she had witnessed seismic changes, survived cataclysmic events, and, with her children, endured to rebuild lives as Anglo-Dakota people in an anti-Indian world.--From back cover.
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Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book NMC Library Stacks F606 .C37 2020 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 33039001497717

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Lake Huron, 1836 -- Mississippi River, 1812-1823: Prairie du Chien -- Lake Huron, 1823-1837: Drummond Island, Mackinac Island, Coldwater -- Mississippi River, 1837-1853: Grey Cloud Island, Kap'oja -- Minnesota River, 1853-1860: Yellow Medicine Agency, Redwood Agency -- Minnesota River, 1860-August 17, 1862: Beaver Creek, Redwood Agency -- Minnesota River, August 18-August 26, 1862: Redwood Agency, Beaver Creek, Yellow Medicine Agency, Little Crow's Camp -- Minnesota River, August 26-October 5, 1862: Yellow Medicine, Camp Release -- Minnesota River, October 6-November 4, 1862: Camp Release, Redwood Agency -- Mississippi and Missouri Rivers, 1862-1866: Fort Snelling, Crow Creek -- Cannon and Straight Rivers, 1862-1868: Faribault -- Minnesota River and Lake Traverse, 1868-1904: Lake Traverse Reservation and Beaver Falls -- Epilogue -- Appendix 1: Daybreak Woman's family ; 2: The Santee Dakota and the fur trade: women in nineteenth-century Dakota culture ; 3: Anglo-Dakota daughters in nineteenth-century Minnesota.

A woman's remarkable life provides a new perspective on a century of turbulent change.

Daybreak Woman, (also known as Jane Anderson Robertson), the daughter of an Anglo-Canadian trader and a Scots-Dakota woman, was born at a trading post on the Minnesota River in 1810. When she died in 1904, after having lived in the region all those years, she had witnessed seismic changes, survived cataclysmic events, and, with her children, endured to rebuild lives as Anglo-Dakota people in an anti-Indian world.--From back cover.

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