Unrepentant Dakota Woman: Angelique Renville & the Struggle for Indigenous Identity, 1845-1876 Lakota Throughout the 1960s

Throughout the 1960s

of who we have been

shared at language tables

In this latest work by the prominent historian

and marks the debut of a major new voice in Indigenous fiction

Unrepentant Dakota Woman: Angelique Renville & the Struggle for Indigenous Identity, 1845-1876 Lakota Throughout the 1960sBorn in Minnesota in 1845 into a prominent mixed blood Dakota family, Angelique Renville (18451876) initially learned traditional Dakota ways of life from her relatives while navigating the complex multi cultural world of the declining fur trade. At age six, she and her younger sister Agnes were adopted by Protestant missionaries Stephen and Mary Riggs, who did their utmost to erase her Dakota identity and educate her as a proper Christian woman.