2010 Reading #100: Through Dakota Eyes

Books 1-10.
Books 11-20.
Books 21-30.
Books 31-40.
Books 41-50.
Books 51-60.
Books 61-70.
Books 71-80.
Books 81-90.
91. Over the Earth I Come: The Great Sioux Uprising of 1862 by Duane Schultz.
92. Ripley Under Ground by Patricia Highsmith.
93. The Ant King and Other Stories by Benjamin Rosenbaum.
94. The Wind's Twelve Quarters by Ursula K. Le Guin.
95. Ripley's Game by Patricia Highsmith.
96. A Fisherman of the Inland Sea: Stories by Ursula K. Le Guin.
97. The Boy Who Followed Ripley by Patricia Highsmith.
98. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, translated by Edith Grossman (Re-read).
99. Four Ways to Forgiveness by Ursula K. Le Guin.

100. Through Dakota Eyes: Narrative Accounts of the Minnesota Indian War of 1863 edited by Gary Clayton Anderson and Alan R. Woolworth. The Dakota Wars from thirty-six different viewpoints, representing a fairly wide range of backgrounds; some tribal leaders, some farmers who were largely assimilated into white society, some belligerents in the conflict and some captives. The unifying thread is that all had at least some Dakota ancestry. I should have read this book before I started on the current section of the novel; although much of the information here--including some of the very same excerpts--has been in my other reading, the presentation of it here helped convince me that I was taking an approach that doesn't quite gibe with the reality of the war and its aftermath. There's still not nearly enough information from the perspective of the Mdewakantons themselves, especially the women, but this is one of the best resources I've encountered for information on their society at that time.