Among the Sioux

Among the Sioux, by R. J.
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Author: R. J. Creswell
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AMONG THE SIOUX

A Story of The Twin Cities and The Two Dakotas

BY
THE REV. R. J. CRESWELL
Author of "WHO SLEW ALL THESE," ETC.

Introduction by
THE REV. DAVID R. BREED, D.D.
1906
THE UNIVERSITY PRESS MINNEAPOLIS, MINN.

OUR PLATFORM.
For Indians we want American Education, American homes, American
rights,--the result of which is American citizenship. And the Gospel is
the power of God for their salvation!

DEDICATION.
TO NELLIE,
(MY WIFE)
Who, for forty years has been my faithful companion in the toils and
triumphs of missionary service for the Freedmen of the Old Southwest
and the heroic pioneers of the New Northwest, this volume is
affectionately inscribed.

By the Author,
R. J. CRESWELL.

INTRODUCTION
By the Rev. David R. Breed, D.D.
The sketches which make up this little volume are of absorbing interest,
and are prepared by one who is abundantly qualified to do so. Mr.
Creswell has had large personal acquaintance with many of those of
whom he writes and has for years been a diligent student of missionary
effort among the Sioux. His frequent contributions to the periodicals on
this subject have received marked attention. Several of them he gathers
together and reprints in this volume, so that while it is not a consecutive
history of the Sioux missions it furnishes an admirable survey of the
labors of the heroic men and women who have spent their lives in this
cause, and furnishes even more interesting reading in their biographies
that might have been given upon the other plan.
During my own ministry in Minnesota, from 1870 to 1885, I became
very intimate with the great leaders of whom Mr. Creswell writes.
Some of them were often in my home, and I, in turn, have visited them.
I am familiar with many of the scenes described in this book. I have
heard from the missionaries' own lips the stories of their hardships,
trials and successes. I have listened to their account of the great
massacre, while with the tears flowing down their cheeks they told of
the desperate cruelty of the savages, their defeat, their conversion, and
their subsequent fidelity to the men and the cause they once opposed. I
am grateful to Mr. Creswell for putting these facts into permanent
shape and bespeak for his volume a cordial reception, a wide
circulation, and above all, the abundant blessing of God.
DAVID R. BREED.
Allegheny, Pa., January, 1906.

PREFACE.
This volume is not sent forth as a full history of the Sioux Missions.
That volume has not yet been written, and probably never will be.
The pioneer missionaries were too busily engaged in the formation of
the Dakota Dictionary and Grammar, in the translation of the Bible into
that wild, barbaric tongue; in the preparation of hymn books and text
books:--in the creation of a literature for the Sioux Nation, to spend
time in ordinary literary work. The present missionaries are
overwhelmed with the great work of ingathering and upbuilding that
has come to them so rapidly all over the widely extended Dakota plains.
These Sioux missionaries were and are men of deeds rather than of
words,--more intent on the making of history than the recording of it.
They are the noblest body of men and women that ever yet went forth
to do service, for our Great King, on American soil.
For twenty years it has been the writer's privilege to mingle intimately
with these missionaries and with the Christian Sioux; to sit with them at
their great council fires; to talk with them in their teepees; to visit them
in their homes; to meet with them in their Church Courts; to inspect
their schools; to worship with them in their churches; and to gather
with them on the greensward under the matchless Dakota sky and
celebrate together with them the sweet, sacramental service of our Lord
and Savior, Jesus the Christ.
He was so filled and impressed by what he there saw and heard, that he
felt impelled to impart to