1. Alfred Longley Riggs
  2. Alfred Longley Riggs

Alfred Longley Riggs

Date arrived: 
Dec 6th 1837
Arrived in: 
Chippewa County, MN, USA
Date departed: 
Apr 15th 1916
Departed from: 
McCartys, NM, USA
Other Names: 
Name: 
Ziŋtkádaŋ Wašté
Dialect: 
Eastern Dakota

Voice of

  • Oúŋ Eháŋna (1912)
    A summary of a Southern Workman article by Ohíyes’a, in which he describes, first-hand, the precolonial lifestyle still led by northern Ojibwes. He focuses mostly on canoe building and the harvesting of wild-rice and other foods.

Mentions in the recordings

  • Stephen Jones déčhen oyáka, “Iná déčhen omákiyaka, tóhaŋ Dr. A. L. Riggs mniámakaštaŋ kta uŋkháŋ mičháže kta iwíčhawaŋǧa uŋkháŋ Demas eyápi. Stephen Jones said, “my mom used to tell me that when Dr. A. L. Riggs was baptizing me, he had asked them for my name and so they said Demas.
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