Linda M. Clemmons is a professor of nineteenth-century American and Native American history and the current director of the Honors Program at Illinois State University in Normal, Illinois. She is the author of Dakota in Exile: The Forgotten Stories of Captives in the Aftermath of the U.S.-Dakota War (University of Iowa Press) and Conflicted Mission: Faith, Disputes, and Deception on the Dakota Frontier (Minnesota Historical Society Press). Her work examines the interaction of Protestant missionaries and Dakota families in the nineteenth century.