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Book The Death of South Dakota s Governor

Download or read book The Death of South Dakota s Governor written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Employment, Housing, and Aviation Subcommittee and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Death of a Dream

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  • Author : Paul Lundborg
  • Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Release : 2013-02-17
  • ISBN : 9781482578102
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Death of a Dream written by Paul Lundborg and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2013-02-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a story of sacrifice and tragedy fueled by the long-held immigrant's dream for a new beginning in a new land. In 1861, a large extended family of Swedes settles on the far northwest edge of the new state of Minnesota. One year later, as the late-summer harvest is in, a group of Dakota warriors declares war on all the settlers. In a surprise attack, 13 members of this family are killed. Left behind are eight others who flee for refuge, joining hundreds of other terrified residents of the state. This is the story of my family--my great, great grandparents, their children, their cousins and their children. I write it to honor my ancestors and help my extended family know and understand it. I think others will appreciate this story as well, as it reveals the courage and persistence evoked in the face of a great tragedy in which at least 650 civilians were killed. The Dakota people also suffered deeply, but theirs is not my story to tell. I write in the hope that descendants of the Dakota and descendants of the White settlers will one day be able to share our stories with one another.

Book Dakota in Exile

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  • Author : Linda M. Clemmons
  • Publisher : Iowa and the Midwest Experienc
  • Release : 2019
  • ISBN : 1609386337
  • Pages : 281 pages

Download or read book Dakota in Exile written by Linda M. Clemmons and published by Iowa and the Midwest Experienc. This book was released on 2019 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Hopkins was a man caught between two worlds. As a member of the Dakota Nation, he was unfairly imprisoned, accused of taking up arms against U.S. soldiers when war broke out with the Dakota in 1862. However, as a Christian convert who was also a preacher, Hopkins's allegiance was often questioned by many of his fellow Dakota as well. Without a doubt, being a convert--and a favorite of the missionaries--had its privileges. Hopkins learned to read and write in an anglicized form of Dakota, and when facing legal allegations, he and several high-ranking missionaries wrote impassioned letters in his defense. Ultimately, he was among the 300-some Dakota spared from hanging by President Lincoln, imprisoned instead at Camp Kearney in Davenport, Iowa, for several years. His wife, Sarah, and their children, meanwhile, were forced onto the barren Crow Creek reservation in Dakota Territory with the rest of the Dakota women, children, and elderly. In both places, the Dakota were treated as novelties, displayed for curious residents like zoo animals. Historian Linda Clemmons examines the surviving letters from Robert and Sarah; other Dakota language sources; and letters from missionaries, newspaper accounts, and federal documents. She blends both the personal and the historical to complicate our understanding of the development of the Midwest, while also serving as a testament to the resilience of the Dakota and other indigenous peoples who have lived in this region from time immemorial.

Book Dakota Death

Download or read book Dakota Death written by Billy Hall and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cotton Lang, astride his horse, knew it could be suicide to ride across the open stretch of ground. Yet his promised bride was in great peril from the twisted love of an insane suitor. Could he yet save her? Braced against the expected volley of bullets, he spurred his mount on. Now dangerously exposed and riding low and fast, nothing less than a miracle would let him survive to even learn his sweetheart's fate.

Book My Dakota

Download or read book My Dakota written by Rebecca Norris Webb and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2005, Rebecca Norris Webb set out to photograph her home state of South Dakota, a sparsely populated frontier state on the Great Plains with more buffalo, pronghorn, mule deer and prairie dogs than people. South Dakota is a land of powwows and rodeos, corn palaces and buffalo roundups; a harsh and beautiful landscape dominated by space, silence, brutal wind and extreme weather. The next year, however, everything changed for Norris Webb, when her brother died unexpectedly of heart failure. "For months," she writes in the introduction to this volume, "one of the few things that eased my unsettled heart was the landscape of South Dakota. For each of us, does loss have its own geography?" My Dakota is a small intimate book about the west and its weathers, and an elegy for a lost brother.

Book Uncrashable Dakota

Download or read book Uncrashable Dakota written by Andy Marino and published by Henry Holt and Company (BYR). This book was released on 2013-11-12 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1862, Union army infantryman Samuel Dakota changed history when he spilled a bottle of pilfered moonshine in the Virginia dirt and stumbled upon the biochemical secret of flight. Not only did the Civil War come to a much quicker close, but Dakota Aeronautics was born. Now, in Andy Marino's Uncrashable Dakota, it is 1912, and the titanic Dakota flagship embarks on its maiden flight. But shortly after the journey begins, the airship is hijacked. Fighting to save the ship, the young heir of the Dakota empire, Hollis, along with his brilliant friend Delia and his stepbrother, Rob, are plunged into the midst of a long-simmering family feud. Maybe Samuel's final secret wasn't just the tinkering of a madman after all. . . . What sinister betrayals and strange discoveries await Hollis and his friends in the gilded corridors and opulent staterooms? Who can be trusted to keep the most magnificent airship the world has ever known from falling out of the sky?

Book Death on the Dakota Prairie

Download or read book Death on the Dakota Prairie written by Tom Wudel and published by Publishamerica Incorporated. This book was released on 2008-03 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henry Moss is home on his horse ranch when word reaches him his good friend and neighbor Agnes took ill and died suddenly. The sixteen-year-old immigrant girlas body arrives in her hometown of Parkston, South Dakota, in a sealed casket the afternoon of June 2, 1906. Because of the suspected contagious disease, the body is hastily buried. However, after the funeral, it is discovered that she may not have died naturally, and the body is disinterred for the first of two autopsies revealing murder. Three local men travel to Sioux Falls, where the girl died, while in the employ of the rich and powerful Jewish brewer Walter Wiseman to investigate. Henry Moss, burdened by grief that he could have prevented the death, covertly conducts his own mission. They soon realize that justice is like a greased pigait is hard to catch and even harder to hold on to!

Book Massacre in Minnesota

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  • Author : Gary Clayton Anderson
  • Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
  • Release : 2019-10-17
  • ISBN : 0806166029
  • Pages : 385 pages

Download or read book Massacre in Minnesota written by Gary Clayton Anderson and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2019-10-17 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In August 1862 the worst massacre in U.S. history unfolded on the Minnesota prairie, launching what has come to be known as the Dakota War, the most violent ethnic conflict ever to roil the nation. When it was over, between six and seven hundred white settlers had been murdered in their homes, and thirty to forty thousand had fled the frontier of Minnesota. But the devastation was not all on one side. More than five hundred Indians, many of them women and children, perished in the aftermath of the conflict; and thirty-eight Dakota warriors were executed on one gallows, the largest mass execution ever in North America. The horror of such wholesale violence has long obscured what really happened in Minnesota in 1862—from its complicated origins to the consequences that reverberate to this day. A sweeping work of narrative history, the result of forty years’ research, Massacre in Minnesota provides the most complete account of this dark moment in U.S. history. Focusing on key figures caught up in the conflict—Indian, American, and Franco- and Anglo-Dakota—Gary Clayton Anderson gives these long-ago events a striking immediacy, capturing the fears of the fleeing settlers, the animosity of newspaper editors and soldiers, the violent dedication of Dakota warriors, and the terrible struggles of seized women and children. Through rarely seen journal entries, newspaper accounts, and military records, integrated with biographical detail, Anderson documents the vast corruption within the Bureau of Indian Affairs, the crisis that arose as pioneers overran Indian lands, the failures of tribal leadership and institutions, and the systemic strains caused by the Civil War. Anderson also gives due attention to Indian cultural viewpoints, offering insight into the relationship between Native warfare, religion, and life after death—a nexus critical to understanding the conflict. Ultimately, what emerges most clearly from Anderson’s account is the outsize suffering of innocents on both sides of the Dakota War—and, identified unequivocally for the first time, the role of white duplicity in bringing about this unprecedented and needless calamity.

Book Life at the Dakota

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  • Author : Stephen Birmingham
  • Publisher : Syracuse University Press
  • Release : 1996
  • ISBN : 9780815603382
  • Pages : 276 pages

Download or read book Life at the Dakota written by Stephen Birmingham and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This social history describes the lives of the rich and trendy who have lived at the Dakota, a New York apartment house daringly erected in 1884, too far up and on the wrong side of town. The book covers tenants such as the Gustav Schirmers, Boris Karloff, Judy Holliday and Lauren Bacall.

Book Accidentally Dead

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  • Author : Dakota Cassidy
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 2008-07-01
  • ISBN : 1440629587
  • Pages : 344 pages

Download or read book Accidentally Dead written by Dakota Cassidy and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-07-01 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vampire puts the bite on a dental assistant. It's a lousy first day on the job for Nina Blackman when a patient, loopy from the anesthesia, bites her. At least he was cute. But for real drama she can't beat the next evening. Nina wakes up with a set of razor-sharp fangs, bionic vision, supersonic hearing, and a taste for blood. But there's a good explanation: It's her patient, Long Island vampire Greg Statleon. Actually they're perfect for each other-if Nina's willing to commit to one man for eternity.

Book Source Book for Community Planning for Nursing in South Dakota

Download or read book Source Book for Community Planning for Nursing in South Dakota written by United States. Public Health Service. Division of Nursing and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book South Dakota Historical Collections

Download or read book South Dakota Historical Collections written by and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Dakota

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  • Author : Sarah Patt
  • Publisher : Histria Books
  • Release : 2023-05-23
  • ISBN : 159211279X
  • Pages : 104 pages

Download or read book Dakota written by Sarah Patt and published by Histria Books. This book was released on 2023-05-23 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After her father' s accidental death at Jennings oil refinery, eighteen-year-old Dakota Buchannan finds out that she has a much older half-brother and moves to Houston to live with him. Life seems to be going quasi-normal until CEO Jake Jennings breaks into Dakota' s home to confront her. In his narcotized state, he assaults her while incoherently apologizing for something his late father did to her, of which she has no recollection.Dakota escapes, and Jake is charged. Released on bail, he falls to his death from his penthouse balcony in an apparent suicide. Dakota is haunted by what he was trying to tell her that terrifying night and questions if he actually killed himself or someone pushed him off his balcony. Feisty and determined, Dakota seeks to reconcile the past.

Book The Mentor

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1918
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 688 pages

Download or read book The Mentor written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book North Country

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  • Author : Mary Lethert Wingerd
  • Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
  • Release : 2010
  • ISBN : 0816648689
  • Pages : 600 pages

Download or read book North Country written by Mary Lethert Wingerd and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1862, four years after Minnesota was ratified as the thirty-second state in the Union, simmering tensions between indigenous Dakota and white settlers culminated in the violent, six-week-long U.S.-Dakota War. Hundreds of lives were lost on both sides, and the war ended with the execution of thirty-eight Dakotas on December 26, 1862, in Mankato, Minnesota--the largest mass execution in American history. The following April, after suffering a long internment at Fort Snelling, the Dakota and Winnebago peoples were forcefully removed to South Dakota, precipitating the near destruction of the area's native communities while simultaneously laying the foundation for what we know and recognize today as Minnesota. In North Country: The Making of Minnesota, Mary Lethert Wingerd unlocks the complex origins of the state--origins that have often been ignored in favor of legend and a far more benign narrative of immigration, settlement, and cultural exchange. Moving from the earliest years of contact between Europeans and the indigenous peoples of the western Great Lakes region to the era of French and British influence during the fur trade and beyond, Wingerd charts how for two centuries prior to official statehood Native people and Europeans in the region maintained a hesitant, largely cobeneficial relationship. Founded on intermarriage, kinship, and trade between the two parties, this racially hybridized society was a meeting point for cultural and economic exchange until the western expansion of American capitalism and violation of treaties by the U.S. government during the 1850s wore sharply at this tremulous bond, ultimately leading to what Wingerd calls Minnesota's Civil War. A cornerstone text in the chronicle of Minnesota's history, Wingerd's narrative is augmented by more than 170 illustrations chosen and described by Kirsten Delegard in comprehensive captions that depict the fascinating, often haunting representations of the region and its inhabitants over two and a half centuries. North Country is the unflinching account of how the land the Dakota named Mini Sota Makoce became the State of Minnesota and of the people who have called it, at one time or another, home.

Book Dead Tunes

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  • Author : M K Coker
  • Publisher : Independently Published
  • Release : 2020-07
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 282 pages

Download or read book Dead Tunes written by M K Coker and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2020-07 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: His music pulled on their heartstrings...Until someone at the Big Jammer River Music Festival pulled a string tight around Hal Birchard's neck. To Sheriff Karen Okerlund Mehaffey and her detective-uncle, Marek Okerlund, the reclusive musician was a head-scratching mystery-his origins as murky as those of the strange fiddle he'd played that had even staid Dakotans tapping their feet. Karen is doing a tap dance of her own, trying to get her young sister-in-law emancipated as a minor without tipping off the girl's drug-addict mother. As for Marek, he just wants to survive his daughter's headbanging practice sessions for a summer concert that can't come soon enough.Picking out the killer in a meandering symphony of suspects, from festival contestants to judges with secrets, is no easy task. Will Karen and Marek tune in to the killer in time for a satisfying resolution or will the case come to a discordant end?DEAD TUNES is a character-driven police procedural. Ninth in series. Word Count: 78,000. Occasional profanity. Minimal gore.

Book In the Footsteps of Our Ancestors  The Dakota Commemorative Marches of the 21st Century

Download or read book In the Footsteps of Our Ancestors The Dakota Commemorative Marches of the 21st Century written by Waziyatawin Angela Wilson and published by Living Justice Press. This book was released on 2013-11 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: