Borealis books

The Dakota, commonly known as the Sioux, forms the leading and best known division of the Siouan linguistic family. The Dakota language now consists of three well defined dialects, Santee, Yankton, and Teton. This work represents an enlarged dictionary of this language.

"A well-traveled New York sophisticate, Florence Page Jaques fell in love with northern Minnesota during her first trips to the region, and recounted those early travels in Canoe Country and Snowshoe Country. She writes of the excitement of traveling by foot, canoe, snowshoe, and dogsled. Weeks of solitude canoeing through the Boundary Waters are interrupted by encounters with the denizens of the north country: Native Americans preserving the vestiges of traditional culture, colorful and sometimes eccentric lumberjacks and trappers, and hard-working homesteaders."--Pub. website. Includes drawings of wildlife, birds, scenery, etc. of the Boundary Waters area (Minnesota and the Lake Superior region of Northwestern Ontario).

Describes from the Norwegian point of view the operations of the Scandinavian pioneers who settled so much of the Middle West from Wisconsin to North Dakota.