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title: 'Mary and I: Forty Years with the Sioux'
type: pdf
hasMedia: true
requiresPurchase: false
authors:
- 'Stephen Return Riggs'
date: 1880-01-01
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '19th century'
topics:
- 'Domestic Missions'
- 'Autobiography and Biography'
scriptures:
- 'Matthew 9'
- 'Acts 17'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/19th-century/riggs-1880-mary-and-i-forty-years-with-the-sioux
---

# Mary and I: Forty Years with the Sioux

Memoir of Stephen R. Riggs recounting forty years among the Dakota (Sioux): missionary life, Dakota language and Bible translation, schools, conversions, and hardships.

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