Vocab
This portable home could be moved as Dakota families traveled.
What is a tipi?
The Badger and the Bear was trying to teach this important Dakota value.
What is generosity?
This means the knowledge and skills a person has that help them become productive.
What is human capital?
Dakota history and traditions were passed from generation to generation through spoken stories. This is called this.
What is oral history?
This important Dakota word means sharing with and helping others.
What is ohanwaste?
In The Badger and the Bear, the bear family demonstrated this value, which is the opposite of generosity.
What is greed?
This word means money or other benefits received for goods or services.
What is income?
Instead of trying to be 100% accurate, oral history tries to do this instead.
Teach values, traditions, or lessons.
This Dakota phrase means respecting the people arounds you.
What is wo ohoda?
In The Ghost-Wife, the young man was told never to do this inside the tipi.
What is raise his voice/yell?
How can connecting with others help improve your human capital?
Dakota people traditionally viewed history as this.
What is a circle?
This Dakota idea refers to extended family and other people treated like family.
What is tiyospaye?
A Dakota person gives a gift in another person's name to honor that person. What was this called?
Staying healthy & productive is important for human capital because of this.
If you're sick or unhealthy, you can't work.
According to the Dakota view of history, these three parts of time all affect one another.
What are the past, present, and future?
“Mni Sota Makoce,” the Dakota phrase connected to the name Minnesota, refers to this.
"The land where the water meets the sky."
A Dakota child speaks softly, does not stare at sleeping people, and moves carefully around others. Name the value these actions demonstrate.
What is respect?
Learning from an experienced hunter would increase a young person's human capital because of this.
The young person would gain knowledge and skills that could make them a better hunter and more productive member of the community.
Explain why an event from long ago can still matter today according to the Dakota view of history.
Events or problems from the past can continue to affect people in the present and future if they have not been resolved.