Category Archives: U.S. Dakota War of 1862

Three Dakota Daughters – Nancy McClure, Julia LaFramboise and Helen Sibley

Posted on October 2, 2019 by lois

Throughout the story of Minnesota’s territorial past we often encounter individual stories of women whose mothers were Dakota and whose fathers were white traders, soldiers or adventurers. These women share many things in common, including a sense that they did … Continue reading →

Posted in Dakota Mission, Eliza Huggins Holtzclaw, Fanny Huggins Pettijohn, Hazlewood Mission, Helen Hastings Sibley Sawyer, Jane Smith Williamson, Julia Ann LaFramboise, Kaposia Village, Lac Qui Parle Mission, Lydia Pettijohn Huggins, Magdelaine LaFramboise, Mary Ann Longley Huggins Kerlinger, Nancy Jane Williamson, Nancy McClure Faribault Huggan, Sarah Steele Sibley, Sophia Josephine Marsh Huggins Hanthorne, Tahshinaohindoway aka Red Blanket Woman, Traverse des Sioux, U.S. Dakota War of 1862, Women in Minnesota | 1 Comment

Life of a Legend – Introduction to the Story of Jane Smith Williamson

Posted on March 25, 2014 by lois

All of the missionary women whose stories have been recorded in Dakota Soul Sisters to this point came to the Dakota mission when they were young. Most were new brides; others were single women who came to experience the adventure … Continue reading →

Posted in Alan Woolworth, Jane Smith Williamson, Jeff Williamson, John LaBatte, Kaposia Village, Lac Qui Parle Mission, Mary Ann Clark Longley Riggs, Minnesota, Minnesota Historical Society Photo Purge, Minnesota History, Ohio, Stephen Osman, U.S. Dakota War of 1862, Underground Railroad, Women in Minnesota | 1 Comment

Contrary Mary – The Story of Mary Ann Clark Longley Riggs – Part V

Posted on September 14, 2013 by lois

Mary Riggs was 40 years old when the mission at Lac Qui Parle burned to the ground and the family relocated to a new mission site at Yellow Medicine. They arrived in September 1854 and moved into their new home … Continue reading →

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Tatidutawin – A True Dakota Soul Sister – Part II

Posted on March 26, 2013 by lois

By the summer of 1851, Catherine, now sixty years old and widowed, took great pleasure in studying the Bible and reading everything she could find that was written in the Dakota language. Fanny Huggins, who had known Catherine since 1839, … Continue reading →

Posted in Catherine Tatidutawin, Dakota Mission, Fanny Huggins Pettijohn, Joseph Kawanke, Lac Qui Parle Mission, Lorenzo Lawrence, Minnesota History, Robert Hopkins Chaska, U.S. Dakota War of 1862, Wawiyohiyawin/Sarah Hopkins, Women in Minnesota | Leave a comment

Sophia’s Story – The Captivity of Sophia Josephine Marsh Huggins

Posted on September 25, 2012 by lois

Sophia Huggins, always called Josephine by her friends and family, doesn’t really qualify as a woman of the Dakota mission but in terms of her experiences and close relationship to the women of “Soul Sisters,” her story definitely belongs here. … Continue reading →

Posted in Lac Qui Parle Mission, Lydia Pettijohn Huggins, Minnesota, Minnesota History, Sophia Josephine Marsh Huggins Hanthorne, St. Peter, Traverse des Sioux, U.S. Dakota War of 1862, Women in Minnesota | 4 Comments

Lydia Huggins Pettijohn Part III

Posted on September 13, 2012 by lois

You can find Part I of Lydia’s story at http://dakotasoulsisters.com/2012/07/11/learning-about-lydia/. Part II is at http://dakotasoulsisters.com/2012/08/15/learning-about-lydia-the-life-of-lydia-pettijohn-huggins-part-ii/ Lydia and Alexander Huggins’ family home in Traverse des Sioux, Minnesota, was over 100 miles from the Lower Sioux Agency near present-day Morton, Minnesota. Still, … Continue reading →

Posted in Dakota Mission, Fanny Huggins Pettijohn, Lydia Pettijohn Huggins, Minnesota, Minnesota History, St. Peter, Traverse des Sioux, U.S. Dakota War of 1862, Women in Minnesota | 3 Comments