Audio: 11-06-22 SD REVIVAL/AWAKENING; SODAK’S CHRISTIAN HISTORY (text below) powerpoint begins at 9.40.
SOUTH DAKOTA CHRISTIAN HISTORY: The pastor who hosted church revival in state capitol building in Yankton, SD (then territory capital), wrote SD’s constitution and coined the state motto: “Under God the People Rule” – Dr. Joseph Ward (1838 -1889), of puritan New England and New York; and Congregational pastor, founder of Dakota’s first college-Yankton College, arguably one of the wisest, smartest men at that time.
Picture and his words on REAL CHRISTIANITY from book: “Joseph Ward of Dakota” by George H. Durand
SOUTH DAKOTA CHRISTIAN HISTORY: FIRST STATE GOVERNOR, LAST TERRITORY GOVERNOR, ARTHUR C. MELLETTE, WILLING TO “DIE BY” CHRIST’S WORDS, of French Huguenot (Protestant) family who escaped Catholic persecution, lawyer
From, The Monthly South Dakotan, March 1899, Vol. 1 # 11, pgs.183 to 186
The true story of Mary Collins, Missionary, and
SITTING BULL: PROVEN FALSE PROPHET (SUPPORTED FALSE MESSIAH’s GHOST DANCE), MEDICINE MAN, ADMITTED TO MISSIONARY THAT HER “POWER” WAS GREATER, ADOPTED HER INTO TRIBE, ASKED HER TO COME TO TEACH HIS PEOPLE TO READ…
*We are going to destroy the lies that have been used to manipulate hate in the minds and hearts of Native people into blatant racism, guilt-tripping for graft, and anarchy…
FROM OFFICIAL SOUTH DAKOTA HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS, VOL. 41 AND VOL. 5
MARY COLLINS (INTRO. BY RICHMOND CLOW), MISSIONARY, AND DOANE ROBINSON, STATE HISTORIAN,
WROTE ABOUT SITTING BULL – HIS SUPERSTITION, HIS MANY STOLEN HORSES, HIS MANY WIVES (not all at same time, though Natives were polygamous), HIS SELF-INFATUATION, AND HIS PUSHING OF FALSE PROPHECY
IN REGARDS TO TRUSTED SOURCES:even Russell Means supported anthropology and science; but also did not when it didn’t fit his narrative (see his many videos here: https://youtu.be/4kKiRheypcs)
Wavoka, False “Messiah”
MATO-GLESKA’S (SPOTTED BEAR’S) SALVATION:
1. REPENTED OF (GAVE UP) “SWEAT-BATH WORSHIP” PRAYERS TO “WHATEVER SPIRIT HE WISHES”
2. KNEW THE BITTERNESS OF POLYGAMY
3. WROTE “…HELP US TEACH OUR CHILDREN MORE WISELY THAN OUR FATHERS TAUGHT US.”
NATIVE WOMAN CHRISTIAN TESTIMONY: ELIZABETH WINYAN (1821-1890)
1.CHIEF SLEEPY EYES’ HEAD SOLDIER’S DAUGHTER
2. CHRISTIAN AT 25
3.HUSBAND ABUSED AND TRIED TO KILL HER
4. LEARNED TO READ FROM MISSION
5. “WARRIOR” FOR CHRIST
Joseph Ward, D.D. (1838-1889)