A Thrilling Narrative of Indian Captivity: Dispatches from the Dakota War

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331 INDEX Page numbers in italic refer to illustrations . “aandakii,” 135 AbCfm. See American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (AbCfm) abolition movement, 20, 22–24, 256n89, 262n150. See also slave narratives; Underground Railroad movement acculturation: Dakota attitudes toward, 47–49, 58, 60, 247n11; and Dakota kinship ties, 124; of Dakotas in postwar Minnesota, 86; and “Indian problem ,” 262n150; at Lac qui Parle, 8, 12; of Renville’s soldiers, 248n21; selective , 264n161; on Upper Reservation, 16, 17. See also assimilation Acoma Pueblo, 113 Acton mn, 63, 269n195 Adams, Harriet, 43, 180, 309n162 Adams, John, 180 Adams, Moses, 142, 288n8 Adams County oh, 289n9 agriculture: at Ascension, 99–100; and buffalo hunting, 306n140; and Christian conversion, 96–97; and Dakota acculturation, 48–49; for Dakota subsistence , 46; at Lac qui Parle, 7; landownership through, 251n50; postwar, 87, 222; on Upper Reservation, 15–18. See also Dakota farmers Ahinyankewin, 271n200 Ainslie, Mary E. D., 102–4, 283nn319–20 Akipa (Tacaŋdupahoṭaŋka). See Renville , Joseph Akipa alcohol, 129, 152, 158, 227, 228, 270n198, 295n53 amanuenses: Antoine Joseph Campbell as, 265n167; and captivity narratives, 120; of Little Crow, 81; Mary B. Renville as, xii, 42, 52–54, 75; reference to, in letter, 213, 316n34; at Upper Camp, 264n164 American Anti-Slavery Society, 254n73 American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (AbCfm): correspondence of, 258n112; Cunninghams with, 289n9; and Dakota acculturation , 48; Dakotas as missionaries in, 100–101; donations to, 255n79; establishing Dakota Mission, 7; and John B. Renville’s education, 25; and John B. Renville’s preaching, 98; mission statement of, 248n18; and postwar reservation conditions, 99; records on Hazlewood Republic, 252n57; Renvilles ’ stipends from, 94; supporting Nona Mazakutemani, 280n293. See also Dakota Mission of AbCfm; missionaries 332 index American Philosophical Society, 246n2 American Tract Society, 304n119 American Turner communes. See Turner community Anawaŋgmani, Simon (He Who Goes Galloping Along) (Wahpeton), 35; burying church bell, 160; correspondence of, 53, 122, 155, 184, 201, 264n166, 298n69; and decision to flee Hazlewood, 74, 275n250; and desire to escape, 155, 297n68; at Fort Ridgley , 206, 315n17; as founder of Hazlewood Republic, 19; Jennie, daughter of, 287n28; as messenger to Henry Sibley, 186, 311n179; on move to Red River, 165, 304n117; name of, 293n41; postwar homelessness of, 280n291; and protection of Mrs. Newman and children, 163, 175, 303n107, 307n149, 315n17; Thomas, son of, 303n107, 307n149; and Thomas Williamson’s escape, 148 “Ancestors of Margaret Jane Jerome” (Merk), 246n7 Anderson, Gary Clayton, 72, 246n4, 247n9, 247n14, 265n167, 275n246 Anderson, Mary, 128, 158, 300n88 Anderson, Mattie, 158, 300n88 Anishinabe Indians. See Ojibwe Indians annuities: Congress’s backing out of, 112; full bloods deprived of, 87; Hazlewood Republic members on, 18; Lower Camp’s complaint about, 56–58, 153, 154, 199, 200, 266n180; records of, 252n53; of Sissetons, 110; and Thomas Galbraith’s resignation, 154, 297n65; and trade and intercourse laws, 49; and Treaty of 1851, 15. See also U.S. government Aŋpetutokec̣a. See Otherday, John artillery, 79, 82. See also cannons; gun fire Ascension (Big Coulee) Sd, 98–105, 107–9, 142, 284n330, 288n4. See also Sisseton Sd assimilation, 47, 135. See also acculturation Association for the Study of American Indian Literatures, 113 atheists, 107, 295n51 Atlas Company’s Book and Job Printing Office: and changes in narrative, xii, 184, 310n172; Cunninghams’ story in edition of, 289n9, 319n29; and editorial procedure, xxiii–xxiv; on George Gleason’s death, 291n25; publication of narrative, 116–17, 131–33; readers of narrative by, 293n38; submission of narrative to, 92–93; title change by, xii Atlas Steam Press Printing Company, 132 Augusta County vA, 288n9 “Aunt Jenny” letter, 102–4, 283n320 autobiography, 119, 286n5 Bachman, Walt, 65, 257n98, 263n156, 273n222 Bad Track (Lillie Brown’s grandfather), 162, 317n5 Bailey v. Fiske, 257n101 Barnes, Albert, 229, 319n21 Barton, Winifred Williamson, 255n81 Bascom, Frank, 162–63, 302n101, 311n182 Basse Normandie (Lower Normandy), France, 5, 246n6 Basswood, 292n33 Battle of Wood Lake: description of, 81, 183, 309n169; Indians forced to fight in, 310n170; location of, 82; Mazamani wounded in, 291n27; messengers during, 186–87, 311n179; Sissetons and Wahpetons in, 272n208; 333 index surrender of captives after, 186, 311n178; and Taṭaŋka Nażiŋ’s intention to save captives, 316n29. See also Lone Tree Lake bead-work, 103 Beaver Creek (Renville County mn), 96, 99, 273n222, 303n107, 309n160 Beaver Falls, 36, 259n123 Beloit wi, 85, 219, 225. See also Wisconsin Belonging: A Culture of Place (hooks), 135 Berlin wi: Belle...