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Excerpt from Annals of the Minnesota Historical Society, for Eighteen Hundred and Fifty-Three, Vol. 4 Since the annual meeting of 1852, the Dakota Lexicon, prepared by the members of the edited by the Rev. S. R. Riggs, of lac-qui-parle, has been published. The Work forms the fourth volume of the Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge, and is a handsome quarto of about four hundred pages. The history of its publication by the Smithsonian Institution, under the patronage of this Society, is as stated in the preface to the Lexicon. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.