Being Dakota

"At the beginning of the twentieth century, a few members of the Sisseton-Wahpeton Dakota community in northeastern South Dakota worked quietly to preserve the customs and stories of their ancestors in the face of federal government suppression and the opposition of organized religion." "Amos E. Oneroad, a son of one of those families, was educated in traditional Dakota ways and then sent east, where he obtained a college education and eventually became a Presbyterian minister. For most of his life, he moved in two worlds. By fortunate coincidence, he met Alanson B. Skinner, a student of…