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Title: Among the Sioux
A Story of the Twin Cities and the Two Dakotas

Author: R. J. Creswell

Release Date: April 24, 2007 [EBook #21208]

Language: English

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AMONG THE SIOUX

_A Story of The Twin Cities and The Two Dakotas_

_BY_

THE REV. R. J. CRESWELL

_Author of_ "WHO SLEW ALL THESE," ETC.

_Introduction by_

THE REV. DAVID R. BREED, D.D.

1906

THE UNIVERSITY PRESS
MINNEAPOLIS, MINN.

_OUR PLATFORM_.

For Indians we want American Education, American homes, American
rights,--the result of which is American citizenship. And the Gospel
is the power of God for their salvation!

_DEDICATION_.

TO NELLIE,

(MY WIFE)

Who, for forty years has been my faithful companion in the toils and
triumphs of missionary service for the Freedmen of the Old Southwest
and the heroic pioneers of the New Northwest, this volume is
affectionately inscribed.

By the Author,

R. J. CRESWELL.

_INTRODUCTION_

By the Rev. David R. Breed, D.D.

The sketches which make up this little volume are of absorbing
interest, and are prepared by one who is abundantly qualified to do so.
Mr. Creswell has had large personal acquaintance with many of those of
whom he writes and has for years been a diligent student of missionary
effort among the Sioux. His frequent contributions to the periodicals
on this subject have received marked attention. Several of them he
gathers together and reprints in this volume, so that while it is not a
consecutive history of the Sioux missions it furnishes an admirable
survey of the labors of the heroic men and women who have spent their
lives in this cause, and furnishes even more interesting reading in
their biographies that might have been given upon the other plan.

During my own ministry in Minnesota, from 1870 to 1885, I became very
intimate with the great