and racism in general

Waa’aka’ follows the title character

demonstrate that the Ghost Dance's message resonated with Lakotas across artificial "progressive" and "nonprogressive" lines

The story teaches the values of kindness

Dakota Grammar Plains Cree and racism in generalDakota Grammar: With Texts and Ethnography "An important document for the study of Dakota culture and history." John D. Nichols This work on the language, grammar, tales, history, and culture of the Dakota Indians is the result of many years of linguistic study and personal experience spent in Minnesota by Stephen R. Riggs, who arrived as a Presbyterian missionary in 1837. A noted scholar of Dakota literature with a great gift for languages, Riggs