4640 FANTASTIC ARCHIVE OF DAKOTA SIOUX 1860-1920.

Category Firearms & Military
Auction Currency USD
Start Price 1,500.00 USD
Estimated at 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD
Most of the manuscripts in this grouping are papers of John Poage Williamson (1835-1917) & family. Manuscript material dates from 1854-1882. Small grouping of Santee Agency photographs & interesting affidavits from 1918-1919 are also here. John Williamson was born in a log cabin in Indian Territory, originally thought to be the first white child born in what would become State of Minnesota. John’s father Dr. Thomas Williamson had decided to minister Christianity to the Dakota Sioux. Doctor Williamson mastered the Dakota language as did his son who would leave Minnesota wilderness to attend Lane Seminary in Cincinnati and starting his ministry at a Presbyterian Church in Indiana. He would leave this church in the fall of 1860 to follow in his father's footsteps in the ministry of the Sioux in Minnesota, he remained with the Sioux thereafter as a missionary. The Sioux were expelled by US Government in 1866. Williamson went with them to reservation in Nebraska Territory. He would continue his ministry till his death in 1917 at Yankton, SD. During his life, he published many books in the Dakota Sioux language. A large grouping of these rare books are also being offered in this sale. 1) Manuscript journal 7.5x5”, 202 hand numbered pages. Titled “Session Record of the United Churches of Pajintaze and Hazelwood”. The first 30 pages are transcriptions copied from Stephen R. Riggs. The first entry states March 3rd 1854 the records of the Lacquipoile church were consumed in the burning of the mission houses. Williamson copies mostly marriage and baptismal records. Starting in 1860 the record is more day-to-day with lists of church members, marriages, baptisms. Starting January 1863 Williamson has Moved to vicinity of Fort Snelling Indian camp, hundreds of names a baptized, marriages of the Dakota Sioux through 1865. By March 1866 John Williamson is at the “Crow Creek Agency” Where hundreds of names of Dakota Sioux are listed in baptismal, marriage and other church records. Often the baptismal record will give the Indian name, and Christian name as baptized. This journal ends in 1870 when Rev A. L. Riggs took charge of the mission work at the Santee agency. 2) US INDIAN SERVICE-MEDICAL RECORD BOOK, Santee Agency, folio ledger 13.5”, 350 pages 1877-1904. Hundreds of entries for sick and dying, ailments, names, ages, ethnicity-Indian, half breed, etc. 3) Manuscript Church roll of the Pilgrim church August 1st 1871, about 200 Dakota names are listed with annotations 4) Certificate of membership of the Pilgrim Church [Nebraska], partially printed and manuscript 5) March 17 1863, Mankato Prison list of 19 Dakota Sioux who were married to more than one woman and have come forward to select one. 6) Manuscript list of about 200 Dakota Sioux, not dated 7) Two page Dakota language manuscript, apparently announcing Rev. A. L. Riggs As new congregational minister by “John P. Williamson” 8) Nov. 8, 1882, four page letter in Dakota Sioux addressed to Santee agency 9) 2 copies of typed and notarized affidavit by Star Frazier, Santee Sioux. He is attempting to get lands promised to his father when he signed the Treaty of 1868 giving up the Black Hills to the US government. 10) Typed and notarized affidavit by Napoleon Wabashaw, Santee Sioux. He is attempting to get lands promised to his father when he signed the Treaty of 1868 giving up the Black Hills to the US government. 11) Typed letter “in the council House of the great Sioux tribe” chief spotted tail appeals to Indians to give up the Black Hills in exchange for “manifold gifts”. This must be a transcription of Chief Spotted Tail’s original pleas cited in the affidavits above. 12) 28 7x9” YWCA photographs of the Indian camp at missionary conference, Santee, Nebraska, 1919 UNATTACHED ACCESSORIES: 1980 reprint biography of John P. Williamson-A Brother to the Sioux” originally published 1919. CONDITION: good to very good overall. (02-22691, 02-22692 & 02-22693). $3,000-5,000.