[5] From 1849 to 1852, Snana attended Williamson's Presbyterian mission school at Kaposia village, where she learned to read and write.

[5] In 1861, Snana and her husband became the first Dakotas confirmed as Christians at the Mission of St. John, the Episcopal church at the Lower Sioux Agency.

[4] In early August 1862, Maggie and Andrew Good Thunder’s oldest daughter Lydia died at the age of seven.

[7] Maggie was grieving when she found out about the initial attacks in the Dakota War of 1862 ordered by Chief Little Crow, leader of her band.

[5] Upon hearing from one her uncles that a "nice looking girl" had been captured, Maggie and her mother arranged to trade her pony for the hostage, fourteen-year-old Mary Schwandt.

[9] Mary Schwandt would later explain that before Maggie and her mother stepped in to "buy" her from her captor, a young Dakota man named Mazzaboomdu (Blows on Iron), she was convinced that he intended to shoot her "for sport.

[5] Although Mary did not suffer further abuse once she was under Maggie's protection, on one occasion, three or four drunken Dakota men tried to drag her out of her tent at night while she was sleeping.

She then sat on the poles nonchalantly to protect them while their camp was thrown into pandemonium as many of Little Crow's followers planned to flee to Canada.

[5]After the war, Maggie and Andrew Good Thunder lived at the internment camp at Fort Snelling, where their other two children died.

[11] However, Good Thunder joined the Sibley expedition as a scout, and Maggie was given permission to move to Faribault, Minnesota.

In the fall of 1894, historian Return Ira Holcombe edited and published survivor Mary Schwandt-Schmidt’s narrative in the St. Paul Pioneer Press.

[1] In her memoirs, Schwandt-Schmidt included this message for Snana:I learn that she is somewhere in Nebraska, but wherever you are, Maggie, I want you to know that the little captive German girl you so often befriended and shielded from harm loves you still for your kindness and care, and she prays God to bless you and reward you in this life and that to come.

[12] Sensing a scoop, Return Ira Holcombe wrote an article about the two women in the Pioneer Press, and also pushed for Maggie to provide her own story.

"[3] However, in the published version, the title appears as "Narration of a Friendly Sioux: By Snana, the Rescuer of Mary Schwandt"—presumably retitled by Holcombe, who also chose to use her Dakota name.

[3] In 1901, Snana and Mary Schmidt were invited to visit Minnesota Governor Samuel Rinnah Van Sant in Saint Paul.

[2] The monument had been raised in 1899 to recognize “full-blood Sioux Indians” who had been “unbrokenly loyal and who had saved the life of at least one white person.”[14] Snana was chosen as one of six Dakota "heroes" to be honored by the Minnesota Valley Historical Society, which was led by Charles D. Gilfillan as president and Return I. Holcombe as historiographer.