Dakota Grammar: With Texts and Ethnography

by Stephen Return Riggs

Book Overview

This classic work on the Dakota language offers extensive information on Dakota grammar and contains a bilingual selection of Dakota myths.

Dakota Grammar presents three interrelating aspects of language and culture, beginning with a detailed description of the Santee dialect of the Dakota language and its grammar. The texts of traditional stories, as recounted in Dakota by native speakers, are accompanied...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0873514726
• ISBN13: 9780873514729
• Release Date: May 2004
• Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press
• Length: 239 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.3" x 8.0"