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Dakota language 

"The language of the Dakota people was first put into written form by missionaries who lived within and learned from the Dakota community in the Minnesota River valley. Stephen R. Riggs (1812-83) worked with Samuel and Gideon Pond and Dr. Thomas S. Williamson to create a Dakota-English dictionary as well as prayer books and hymnals. The dictionary was first published by the Smithsonian Institution in 1852. This edition returns to print an expanded version of the dictionary published in 1890.

A companion volume, An English-Dakota Dictionary, by John P. Williamson, is also available from the Minnesota Historical Society Press. These two dictionaries preserve the older language and remain the most comprehensive and accurate lexicons available. They are essential cultural and linguistic sources for all students of the Dakota language as well as historians, anthropologists, linguists, and ethnologists.

A foreword by Carolynn I. Schommer, a Dakota Indian and former instructor in the American Indian Studies/Dakota Language Department at the University of Minnesota, describes the historical and cultural context in which these dictionaries were created." -- Back cover. 

x, 665 pages ; 30 cm.