Dawnland Voices: An Anthology of Indigenous Writing from New England

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Published for the first time and augmented by extensive annotations| “Witness “offers a rare participant’s perspective on nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Lakota and Dakota life. The first of Waggoner’s two manuscripts presented here includes extraordinary firsthand and as-told-to historical stories by tribal members| such as accounts of life in the Powder River camps and at the agencies in the 1870s| the experiences of a mixed-blood Hu?kpap?a girl at the first off-reservation boarding school| and descriptions of traditional beliefs. The second manuscript consists of Waggoner’s sixty biographies of Lakota and Dakota chiefs and headmen based on eyewitness accounts and interviews with the men themselves. Together these singular manuscripts provide new and extensive information on the history| culture| and experiences of the Lakota and Dakota peoples.