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Autobiography Of Missionary Now Lives In Digital Archives

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PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — The autobiography of a well-known missionary in the Dakota Territory will now live on in a digital form.

The “Autobiography of Mary C. Collins in her handwriting” is now available in the Digital Archives of the South Dakota State Historical Society.

KELO-TV reports ( ) the 116-page manuscript tells stories from Collins’ life doing missionary work on different reservations across the Dakota Territory, including one in which she first met the famous Chief Sitting Bull.

Collins served in the region as a teacher, social worker, preacher and doctor during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

She wrote the manuscript sometime after she left the Standing Rock Indian Reservation in 1910 and before her death in 1920.

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Information from: KELO-TV,

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