The story teaches the values of kindness

Waa’aka’ follows the title character

students of Dakota have had few resources in verb usage and conjugation beyond nineteenth-century dictionaries compiled by missionaries

domestic violence

they played a crucial part in the making of early America

Dakota Grammar Plains Cree The story teaches the valuesDakota Grammar: With Texts and Ethnography "An important document for the study of Dakota culture and history." John D. Nichols This work on the language, grammar, tales, history, and culture of the Dakota Indians is the result of many years of linguistic study and personal experience spent in Minnesota by Stephen R. Riggs, who arrived as a Presbyterian missionary in 1837. A noted scholar of Dakota literature with a great gift for languages, Riggs