TEACHER’S READING LIST

Anderson, William T. Laura Ingalls Wilder Country. New York: HarperPerennial, 1990. This richly illustrated volume gives real-life views of the people and places in Wilder’s life and books.

Blackthunder, Elijah, et al. Ehanna Woyakapi: History and Culture of the Sisseton-Wahpeton Sioux Tribe of South Dakota. Sisseton, S.Dak.: Sisseton-Wahpeton Sioux Tribe, 1975. Sioux culture and the Dakota Conflict of 1862 are explored from a Sioux perspective.

Collins, Mary C. "Autobiography of Mary C. Collins, Missionary to the Western Sioux." Ed. Richmond L. Clow. South Dakota Historical Collections 41 (1982): 1-64. The editor’s valuable background information supplements Mary Collins’s self-told story.

Griffith, T. D. America’s Shrine to Democracy: A Pictorial History. Rapid City, S.Dak.: Mount Rushmore National Memorial Society, 1990. This commemoration of the memorial’s fiftieth anniversary includes Doane Robinson’s role in its creation.

Hill, Pamela Smith. Laura Ingalls Wilder: A Writer’s Life. Pierre:                         South Dakota State Historical Society Press, 2007. This historical-literary biography of the author of the Little House series explores the complex relationships that influenced her writing.

Hoover, Herbert T., and Larry J. Zimmerman. South Dakota Leaders. Vermillion: University of South Dakota Press, 1989. In-depth studies of important individuals, including Spotted Tail, Sitting Bull, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Doane Robinson, and Niels Hansen, comprise this book.

Hyde, George E. Spotted Tail’s Folk: History of the Brulé Sioux. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1976. Hyde provides the definitive history of the Brulé (Sicangu) Sioux.

Jensen, Richard E., R. Eli Paul, and John E. Carter. Eyewitness at Wounded Knee. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1991. Historical photographs and eyewitness accounts bring this episode to life.

Miller, John E. Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little Town: Where History and Literature Meet. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1994. Miller focuses on events that shaped the writing of Laura Ingalls Wilder.

Riggs, Thomas L. As told to Margaret Kellogg Howard. Sunset to Sunset: A Lifetime with my Brothers, the Dakotas. Pierre, S.Dak.: South Dakota State Historical Society Press, 1997. The pioneering missionary of central South Dakota tells his own story of Oahe Mission.

Schuler, Harold H. Fort Sisseton. Sioux Falls, S.Dak.: Augustana College, Center for Western Studies, 1996. The author presents a complete history of the United States military post.

Taylor, Mrs. H. J. "To Plant the Prairies and the Plains: The Life and Work of Niels Ebbesen Hansen." South Dakota Historical Collections 21 (1942): 185-289. Taylor details the scientist’s contributions to agriculture.

Yankton County Historical Society. Yankton County History, South Dakota. Dallas, Tex.: Curtis Media Corp., 1987. Todd’s role in early Dakota can be found in early chapters.