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THBIapi Oaye. The Word Carrier, Very Rare Sioux Indian Language Newspaper, First Year, Complete Run of Twelve Monthly Issues
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Iapi Oaye. The Word Carrier. Greenwood, Dakota Territory: The Dakota Mission, May 1871 - June 1872 (no issues were published in September and October, 1871). Volume I, Nos. 1-12, each issue 4pp, approx. 9 x 12 in., bound together at the spine.
A complete run of 12 issues from the first year of Iapi Oaye (the Word Carrier), a very rare Sioux Indian language newspaper printed by the Dakota Mission in Greenwood, Dakota Territory during the era of the controversy between the United States and the Sioux Indians over the status of the Black Hills. Each of the monthly issues is 4pp and a portion contain a woodcut engraving on the front page. The text on the first three pages of each issue are in the Dakota Sioux language, in the Santee dialect. Only the back page of each issue is in English.
Overall very good condition. Minor corner/edge wear to pages. Some water staining along bottom margin of few pages.Condition
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