Beloved Child: A Dakota Way of Life theory The Dakota People paid and

The Dakota People paid and continue to pay the ultimate price for Minnesota's statehood

Each of these humble but powerful people teaches children to believe in the “genius and brilliance” of Dakota culture as a way of surviving historical trauma

The accompanying ambiguities of gender and culture come into vivid relief in the powerful and poignant Becoming Two-Spirit

Moving between cycles of alliance and competition

Beloved Child: A Dakota Way of Life theory The Dakota People paid andFar greater even than the loss of land, or the relentless coercion to surrender cultural traditions, the deaths of over six hundred children by the spring of 1864 were an unbearable tragedy. Nearly one hundred and fifty years after the U. S.Dakota War of 1862, Dakota people are still struggling with the effects of this unimaginable loss. Among the Dakota, the Beloved Child ceremony marked the special, tender affection that parents felt toward a child