Old Betsey: The Life and Times of a Famous Dakota Woman and Her Family

This life and times biography is the fascinating and unique story of the most famous woman of the Mdewakanton Dakota tribe. "Old Bets" was long associated with the Kaposia band, led by the famed Little Crow. Taopi, the well-known Christian farmer chief, was her son. To her people she was a typical, though extroverted woman, devoted to her family and tribe, and to the early settlers of Minnesota, she was variously a beggar or celebrity and tourist attraction.