In 1834 Samuel W. Pond and his brother Gideon built a cabin near
Cloud Man's village of the Dakota Indians on the shore of Like
Calhoun--now present-day Minneapolis--intending to preach
Christianity to the Indians. The brothers were to spend nearly
twenty years learning the Dakota language and observing how the
Indians live. In the 1860s and 1870s, after the Dakota had fought a
disastrous war with the whites who had taken their land, Samuel
Pond recorded his recollection of the indians "to show what manner
of people the Dakotas were... while they still retained the customs
of their ancestors." Pond's work, first published in 1908, is now
considered classic. Gary Clayton Anderson's introduction discusses
Pond's career and the effects of his background on this work,
"unrivaled today for its discussion of Dakota material culture and
social, political, religious, and economic institutions."
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