Beloved Child: A Dakota Way of Life theory and it is clear that

and it is clear that the injustices: genocide

The Dakota People paid and continue to pay the ultimate price for Minnesota's statehood

Charles Alexander Eastman (Ohiyesa) recounted the story of his traditional Sioux Childhood and youth

Moving between cycles of alliance and competition

Beloved Child: A Dakota Way of Life theory and it is clear thatFar greater even than the loss of land, or the relentless coercion to surrender cultural traditions, the deaths of over six hundred children by the spring of 1864 were an unbearable tragedy. Nearly one hundred and fifty years after the U. S.Dakota War of 1862, Dakota people are still struggling with the effects of this unimaginable loss. Among the Dakota, the Beloved Child ceremony marked the special, tender affection that parents felt toward a child