Daybreak Woman, also known as Jane Anderson Robertson, was born at a trading post on the Minnesota River in 1812 and lived for ninety-two years in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Canada, and South Dakota.
The daughter of an Anglo-Canadian trader and a Scots-Dakota woman, she witnessed seismic changes.
For her first five decades, Daybreak Woman was nurtured and respected in the multiethnic society that thrived for generations in the region.
But in the last forty years of the nineteenth centu.
Minnesota Historical Society Press Daybreak woman: an anglo-dakota life, paperback/jane lamm carroll
