Tah-koo wah-kań, or, The gospel among the Dakotas / by Stephen R. Riggs ; with an introduction, by S.B. Treat.
- Stephen Return Riggs
- Date:
- [1869?]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Tah-koo wah-kań, or, The gospel among the Dakotas / by Stephen R. Riggs ; with an introduction, by S.B. Treat. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![husbands ; they had gone to the spirit land. So there was wailing. Some men returned to find their women the wives of other men. But to the greater paid, on both sides, there were causes of rejoicing. Many met for the first time as Christian men and Christian women, and, as soon as practicable there- after, they had this relation solemnized in a Christian way. During the next few months, ]\Ir. J. P. AVilliamson joined in marriage about fifty couples. In the July following. Dr. Williamson and myself, having visited the Dakotas at the head of the Cotean near Fort Wads- worth, passed over to the Missouri, and came to the new settlement at Niobrara. While we remained there, two of the elders who had shown themselves apt to teach, were selected and licensed to preach the gos- pel to their own people. As the church at Crow Creek and the one iii the prison had](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24877906_0466.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
