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Post by Spirit of the Owl Woman on Jun 20, 2008 9:32:23 GMT -5
In 1869 the federal government sent Captain D.C. Poole to Whetstone Agency, near Yangton, Dakota Territory, to serve as agent to the Brule and Oglala bands of the Sioux or Lakota people. There he witnessed and recorded their first experiment with reservation life--a stressful time of enforced social and cultural change. In these memoirs, first published in 1881 and never before made widely available, Poole depicts the daily life of the agency and the problems of the agent. Despite his lack of insight into American Indian culture, he also created a valuable record of Sioux customs and beliefs. In an insightful new introduction, Raymond J. DeMallie, director of the American Indian Studies Research Institute and professor of anthropology at the University of Indiana, places Poole's memoirs in their nineteenth century context and explains the circumstances surrounding the agent's work at Whetstone Agency. Check out this down loadable book. books.google.com/books?id=rIlHAAAAIAAJ&dq=yankton+sioux+history&pg=PP1&ots=btEdY3wdlQ&source=citation&sig=pQ0lfvkH-a1yk_IGndWPA9XpQV0&hl=en&prev=http://www.google.com/search%3Fq%3DYankton%2BSioux%2BHistory%26ie%3Dutf-8%26oe%3Dutf-8%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26client%3Dfirefox-a&sa=X&oi=print&ct=result&cd=1&cad=bottom-3results#PPA214,M1
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Post by derockbraine1 on Oct 7, 2008 18:53:58 GMT -5
How do you download the book? Derockbraine1
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Post by Vicky on Oct 7, 2008 18:59:45 GMT -5
When you come across these long links, just copy and paste everything from http: on down, all the way to the end (M1). Paste this into your browser.
This is not downloadable though, at least not from this link. You'd have to find it at the library.
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Post by Vicky on Oct 7, 2008 19:33:05 GMT -5
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Post by hermin1 on Oct 8, 2008 16:41:35 GMT -5
vicky: I agree with you. google's E-books are not downloadable. They want you to buy the book. I was able to download and print the full text version in about 20 minutes from the website link you posted. i have been tothat web site before and downloaded other books for free. thanks much.
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Post by Vicky on Oct 8, 2008 17:24:44 GMT -5
Some of them at Google are free and some are just previews. That one was just a preview.
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