Peace Coalition

Bibliography of Primary and Key Secondary Sources on Leaders of the 1862 Dakota Peace Coalition, or “Peace Party”

Carrie Reber Zeman and Alan R. Woolworth, compilers

Simon Anawangmani

“A Converted Indian Brave” in the Foreign Missionary 44-45, July 1886, 55-56.

Anawangmani, Simon and Lorenzo Lawrence to Alexander Ramsey. Letter September 2, 1862, in A Thrilling Narrative of Indian Captivity: Dispatches from the Dakota War(2012) Appendix A, 201.

Riggs, Stephen Return, ed. “Simon Anawangmani” in Dakota Grammar, Texts, and Ethnography. Washington: Government Printing Office 1893. 219-223.

Sibley, H.H. to Alexander Ramsey September 11, 1862. Ramsey Gubernatorial Papers. State Archives, MHS.

Williamson, John P. “Simon Anawangmani” and “True Hero of the Dakota Mission” both in The Word Carrier, vol. 20, no. 12, December, 1891. Microfiche, MHS.

Manuscript and microfiche sources are available in the Library at the Minnesota Historical Society History Center in St. Paul, Minnesota. Printed sources are available through your local library and/or Google Books.

Lorenzo Towanetiton Lawrence

Lorenzo Lawrence Papers, MHS.

Lawrence, Lorenzo. “The Story of Lorenzo Lawrence,” 1895. Dakota Conflict of 1862 Manuscript Collection (M582) MHS.

Lawrence, Lorenzo. Letters to Stephen and Mary Riggs 1863-65. Stephen R. Riggs and Family Papers.

Lawrence, Lorenzo. Transl. by “Tamakochay” [Stephen R. Riggs] “Indian Customs –the Medicine Bag” in the St. Peter (MN) Tribune October 2, 1862 p. 1. Lorenzo Lawrence file, Alan Woolworth Papers, MHS.

“Lorenzo Lawrence, the Citizen Indian’s Story” in the Grant County [SD] Review November 3, 1884.

“Lorenzo Lawrence Dead” in the Grant County [SD] Review April 25 [29?], 1897. Lorenzo Lawrence file, Alan Woolworth Papers, MHS.

Lawrence, Elden The Peace Seekers: Indian Christians and the Dakota Conflict. Sioux Falls, SD: Pine Hill Press, 2005.

Cook, Sydney. Letter to the Editor, “A Good Indian,” the St. Paul Pioneer Press Feb. 10, 1877

DeCamp, Jeannette. “In the Hands of the Sioux” transcript of April 1892 interview in The [Alameda County, California] Call. Brown County Historical Society.

Sweet, Jeannette DeCamp. “Mrs. J.E. De Camp Sweet’s narrative of her captivity in the Sioux outbreak of 1862,” 1894. Collections of the Minnesota Historical Society. St. Paul, Minn: The Pioneer Press Company. p. 354-380.

Richards, Bergmann. “Biographic Notes of ‘Wasicu’ Lorenzo Lawrence, a full Wahpeton,” in Hennepin County History Winter, 1960. p. 7-9. Discusses autobiographical notes located in the Lorenzo Lawrence Papers, MHS.

Manuscript and microfiche sources are available in the Library at the Minnesota Historical Society History Center in St. Paul, Minnesota unless otherwise cited. Printed sources are available through your local library and/or Google Books.