Dakota Commemorative March

Lower Sioux Agency to Fort Snelling
November 7 - 13, 2014

 

The Dakota Commemorative Marches of the 21st Century

Waziyatawin, Editor

Softcover, 324 pages Price: $29.95 USD, $34.95 CAD

Indexed, with 8-page special color photoessay and black and white photos and maps throughout

In the Footsteps of Our Ancestors is a collection of essays and photos that tell the story of the Dakota Death March of November 1862. In the aftermath of the U.S.-Dakota War of 1862, roughly 1,700 Dakota women, children, and elders were forcibly marched from the Lower Sioux Agency in southern Minnesota to a concentration camp at Fort Snelling. Those who survived this march and the subsequent hard winter were eventually removed from their homeland.

In 2002 and 2004, descendants of the original marchers, their relatives, and allies walked the route of the this death march to remember and honor their ancestors and the sacrifices they made. They will continue to walk every two years until 2012. Their stories of the original march, along with their experiences on the marches of this century, convey the deep pain and trauma of historical harms. They also point to the healing of these harms and the revitalization of the Dakota people.

To purchase this book, visit the Living Justice Press website: http://www.livingjusticepress.org/

 

 

Newly Released from Living Justice Press

What Does Justice Look Like?

The Struggle for Liberation in Dakota Homeland
by Waziyatawin, Ph.D.

The story of the Dakota People in Minnesota since the arrival of Europeans in their homeland is one that has been repeated throughout the Americas. Indigenous Peoples have suffered genocide, ethnic cleansing, mass executions, broken treaties, and land theft—a partial list of the traumatic circumstances that are still affecting Native societies today. In What Does Justice Look Like?, author Waziyatawin relates the history of her People in Minisota, providing historical details about treaty violations, resource theft, and the deliberate destruction of Dakota culture. She shows how Dakota People paid and continue to pay the ultimate price for Minnesota's statehood. She then goes further, to outline a vision of what it would take for the historical harms to her People to be made right.

This book explores how we can embark on a path of transformation to respectful coexistence with those whose ancestral homeland this is. Doing justice is central to this process. Without justice, many Dakota say, healing and transformation on both sides cannot occur, and good, authentic relations cannot develop between our Peoples.

Waziyatawin is a Wahpetunwan Dakota scholar and activist of the Pezihutazizi Otunwe in southwestern Minnesota. Her book What Does Justice Look Like? offers an opportunity to learn the long-untold history and what it has meant for the Dakota People. On that basis, the book offers the further opportunity to explore what we can do between us as Peoples to reverse patterns of genocide and oppression and instead to do justice with a depth of good faith, commitment, and action that would be genuinely new for Native and non-Native relations.

What Does Justice Look Like? stands as a powerful contribution to the national and international discussion of Indigenous Peoples' rights.

 

To order What Does Justice Look Like?,
and to see our other books on restorative justice and peacemaking,
please visit our Web site at
www.livingjusticepress.org

Living Justice Press
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Books About the 1862 War

These books are authentic reports on the War. There are other books on the market that glorify the killing and basically are full of fiction. These are books that do not do that. Also included is the history of the Santee Dakota and two dictionaries of the Dakota/English language that are the best out there at the present time.

 

Sioux Uprising of 1862

The Sioux Uprising of 1862

by Kenneth Carley

This book is out of print now but you can get used copies from $4.99 from the Amazon site.
Paperback - 102 pages (December 1976) Minnesota Historical Society; ISBN: 0873511034

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Through Dakota Eyes
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Through Dakota Eyes :
Narrative Accounts of the Minnesota Indian War of 1862

by Alan R. Woolworth (Editor), Gary Clayton Anderson

List Price: $15.95 Our price $11.17
Availability: This title usually ships within 24 hours. Paperback - 316 pages (October 1988) Minnesota Historical Society; ISBN: 0873512162

This book gives accounts from the Dakota people who were there at the time. It continues each person's story through different chapters which deal with various time lines in the War. For instance Big Eagle gave a full account of the whole 6 weeks, part of which is used in this book.

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History of the Santee Sioux: United States Indian Policy on Trial

by Roy W. Meyer

List Price: $29.95 Our Price: $29.95
Availability: Usually ships within 24 hours. Paperback - 471 pages. Publisher: Univ of Nebraska Pr; Revised edition (September 1993) ISBN: 0803282036

Reviewer: Shelley Yeager from Mooresville, IN United States wrote:
I found this book to be very informative. It gave great accounts from both sides (Indian and non-indian). It follows the Santee Sioux history starting with accounts from explorers who encountered these wonderful people, to the Sioux Uprising, to their exile from their land, to the present day. You will find yourself unable to put this book down.

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Dakota-English Dictionary

A Dakota-English Dictionary (Borealis Books)

by Stephen Return Riggs, James Owen Dorsey, Carolynn I. Schommer

List Price: $24.95 Our Price: $17.47
Availability: Usually ships within 24 hours
Paperback - 665 pages Reprint edition (October 1992) Minnesota Historical Society; ISBN: 0873512820

We use this and the following book in the Center. They are both written by the missionaries, Stephen Riggs, and John Williamson, who were with the Dakota during the Conflict. Both of these men were respected by the Dakota as they allowed them to keep their own culture, yet taught them skills which would take them into the 20th century. Instead of forcing the Santee to learn the Bible in English, they translated it into Dakota. These two men were unique in their understanding of the Dakota culture and spirituality.

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English-Dakota Dictionary

An English-Dakota Dictionary (Borealis Books)

by John P. Williamson, Carolynn I. Schommer

List Price: $12.95 Our Price: $10.36
Availability: This title usually ships within 24 hours. Paperback - 264 pages Reprint edition (October 1992) Minnesota Historical Society; ISBN: 0873512839

See the above description.

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