@article{470985,
      recid = {470985},
      author = {Hyman, Colette A.,},
      title = {Dakota women's work : creativity, culture, and exile /},
      publisher = {Minnesota Historical Society Press,},
      address = {St. Paul :},
      pages = {240 p. :},
      year = {2012},
      abstract = {"Ornately decorated objects created by Dakota  women--cradleboards, clothing, animal skin  containers--served more than a utilitarian function. They  tell the story of colonization, genocide, and survival.  Colette Hyman traces the changes in the lives of Dakota  women, starting before the arrival of whites and covering  the fur trade years, the years of treaties and shrinking  lands, the brutal time of removal, starvation, and  shattered families after 1862, and then the transition to  reservation life, when missionaries and government agents  worked to turn the Dakota into Christian farmers. The  decorative work of Dakota women reflected all of this:  native organic dyes and quillwork gave way to beading and  needlework, items traditionally decorated for family gifts  were also produced to sell to tourists and white  collectors, work on cradleboards and animal skin bags  shifted to the ornamenting of hymnals and the creation of  star quilts."--},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/470985},
}