Indigenous Language Collections
A Dakota-English Dictionary
Stephen Return Riggs; edited by James Owen Dorsey
Dakota
671 source PDF pages · 671 pages with searchable text
Source context
The source PDF is split into parts. Page references in search always use the complete original PDF numbering.
- Source PDF part 1 · original PDF pages 1–220
- Source PDF part 2 · original PDF pages 221–440
- Source PDF part 3 · original PDF pages 441–660
- Source PDF part 4 · original PDF pages 661–671
Historical dictionary; preserve its source orthography and dialect distinctions. Existing OCR may misread language letters and pronunciation marks.
Language context: Dakota. This label does not mean every passage is in the listed language.
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Suggested thematic connections
These themes are suggested by matching words in source-linked passages. They are editorial navigation aids, not official standards alignments or validated cultural equivalences.
- Water and rivers · 62 passages
- Animals and relationships · 35 passages
- Kinship and family · 22 passages
- Plants and ecological knowledge · 18 passages
- Seasons and cycles · 13 passages
- Food and cultivation · 10 passages
- Language learning and translation · 9 passages
- Spiritual life and ceremony · 7 passages
- Language and identity · 6 passages
- Pronunciation and writing · 4 passages
- Land and place · 3 passages
- Travel and migration · 2 passages
- Music and song · 2 passages
- Sky and celestial relationships · 2 passages
- Story and oral tradition · 1 passages