---
title: 'The Dakota Mission'
type: pdf
hasMedia: true
requiresPurchase: false
authors:
- 'Stephen Return Riggs'
date: 1880-01-01
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '19th century'
topics:
- 'Domestic Missions'
- 'American Presbyterian and Reformed History'
scriptures:
- 'John 1'
- 'Acts 1'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/19th-century/riggs-1880-the-dakota-mission
---

# The Dakota Mission

History of the Dakota Mission (1830s–1850s): Presbyterian missionaries at Fort Snelling, Lake Harriet and Lac qui Parle, founding schools, translating Scripture into Dakota, and facing opposition.

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