Sarah Bad Heart Bull (center, wearing glasses) confronts law enforcement officers on the steps of the courthouse in Custer, South Dakota, 1973. From box 3 (152.B.11.3B) of Wounded Knee Legal Defense / Offense Committee records, Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul.

Dennis Banks (left), Russell Means (center), and David Hill (right) inside the courthouse in Custer, South Dakota, 1973. From box 3 (152.B.11.3B) of Wounded Knee Legal Defense / Offense Committee records, Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul.

American Indian Movement (AIM) activists confront law enforcement officers in Custer, South Dakota, February 6, 1973. From box 3 (152.B.11.3B) of Wounded Knee Legal Defense / Offense Committee records, Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul.

Totidutawin (also known as Catherine) and her son Tonwaniteton (also known as Lorenzo Lawrence), ca. 1880s. Both were important Dakota leaders in the Lac qui Parle Mission community.

Pajutazee (Yellow Medicine) Mission church members gathered in front of Thomas Williamson’s home, August 1862. Williamson is visible fourth from the left, wearing the hat.

Map of American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) missions among the Dakota in Minnesota. The Lac qui Parle Mission is the farthest west, along the Minnesota River. From Linda M. Clemmons, Conflicted Mission: Faith, Disputes, and Deception on the Dakota Frontier (St Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press), 37.

Anpetutokeca (Other Day) also known as John Otherday, ca. 1862. Anpetutokeca was a Wahpetunwan Dakota man and a member of the congregation at the Lac qui Parle mission.

Simon Anawangmani, 1862. Anawangmani was the first Wahpetunwan Dakota man outside the Renville family to join the mission church at Lac qui Parle.

Fragment of a nineteenth-century slate board and pencils found at the site of the Lac qui Parle Mission in the 1940s. From the archaeology collection (PUID 293.3) of the Minnesota Historical Society.