Mary Butler Renville

A Thrilling Narrative of Indian Captivity

Dispatches from the Dakota War
Herausgeber: Derounian-Stodola, Kathryn Zabelle; Zeman, Carrie Reber

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Produktbeschreibung

This annotated edition of A Thrilling Narrative of Indian Captivity rescues from obscurity a crucially important work about a mixed-race couple’s experiences while held captive during the bitterly contested U.S.-Dakota War in Minnesota of 1862.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nebraska
• Seitenzahl: 408
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781496243386
• ISBN-10: 1496243382
• Artikelnr.: 71869616

Autorenporträt

Mary Butler Renville (1830–1895) and John Baptiste Renville (1831–1903) dedicated their lives to education and mission work among the Dakotas. Carrie Reber Zeman is an independent historian specializing in the context and historiography of the U.S.-Dakota War of 1862. Kathryn Zabelle Derounian-Stodola is a professor of English emerita at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock and the author of The War in Words: Reading the Dakota Conflict through the Captivity Literature (Nebraska, 2009). Dakota scholar Gwen N. Westerman is a professor at Minnesota State University, Mankato, and coauthor of Mni Sota Makoce: The Land of the Dakota, winner of the Hognander Minnesota History Award.    

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
A Note on Editorial Procedure
Pronunciation Guide for Dakota Iapi
Historical Introduction
Literary Introduction
A Thrilling Narrative of Indian Captivity
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
Chapter Eleven
Chapter Twelve
Chapter Thirteen
Addenda
H. D. Cunningham's Statement
Appendix A: Correspondence between the Dakota Camps and Authorities,
September–October 1862
Appendix B: Selected Correspondence of John B. Renville and Mary A.
Renville, 1862–1888
Notes
Bibliography
Index