%0 eBook %0 Electronic %A Kreis, Karl Markus. %I University of Nebraska Press %D 2007 %C Lincoln %G English %G German %@ 0803256485 %@ 6611092250 %@ 9780803256484 %@ 9786611092252 %T Lakotas, black robes, and holy women : German reports from the Indian missions in South Dakota, 1886-1900 %U https://ezproxy.wellesley.edu/login?url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt1djmgq4 %X German missionaries played an important role in the early years of the St Francis mission on the Rosebud Reservation, and the Holy Rosary mission on the Pine Ridge Reservation, both in South Dakota. This work presents a collection of eyewitness accounts by German Catholic missionaries among the Lakotas in the late nineteenth century.