Dakota child, governor's daughter : the life of Helen Hastings Sibley / by Bruce A. Kohn.

Title:

ISBN:

9780988592209

Personal Author:

Kohn, Bruce A.

Publication Information:

Mendota, Minn. : Friends of the Sibley Historic Site, 2012.

Physical Description:

173 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm

Summary:

A biography of Helen Hastings Sibley, the daughter of Henry Sibley and a Dakota Indian mother, who spent her childhood with the Brown family in St. Paul where she met her future husband, Sylvester Sawyer, moved to Milwaukee as the wife of a doctor, and died of scarlet fever.

Personal Subject:

Sibley, Helen Hastings, 1841-1860.

Sibley, Henry Hastings, 1811-1891-Family

Geographic Term:

Minnesota -- History

Minnesota -- Biography

Subject Term:

Indians of North America--Minnesota -- Biography

Indians of North America -- Mixed descent--Minnesota

Indian women--Minnesota -- Biography

Indigenous women--Minnesota -- Biography

Dakota women--Minnesota -- Biography