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32 of their race in the neighborhood of Fort Snelling - Some few have professed Christianity and several are educated, being able to read & write their own language - They were the pupils of the missionaries who have instructed them from books printed in Dacotah for purposes of instruction - The principal portions of the bible & a book of hymns have also been translated into the language and a paperentitle "Dacotah unknown" or "the Dacotah friend" is now published at St Pauls editec by the Rev Gideon H. Pond. The word Dacotah, by which name all that nation of Indians called by the French "Sioux" is designated, signifies a friend or nation of friends - some translate it freely - "One of many" -