Vocabulary
Council Fires
Dialects
Dakota Words
Miscellaneous
100
A cone shaped house made by stretching animal skins over a wooden frame.
What is a tipi?
100
People who shoot from the leaves.
Who are the Wahpekute?
100
Teton
Who spoke the Lakota dialect?
100
Oyate (oh-YAH-tay)
What is the Dakota word for the Seven Council Fires?
100
Story told to teach the Dakota value of respect.
What is "The Ghost Wife"?
200
An expression of courtesy and consideration toward others.
What is respect?
200
Sisseton
Who are medicine people who live by water?
200
Dialect spoken by the people who live in the forest.
What is Dakota?
200
***DAILY DOUBLE*** ohanwaste (oh-HAHN-wahsh-tay)
What is the Dakota word for generosity?
200
"The Badger and the Bear"
What story is told to teach the Dakota value of generosity?
300
kinship
What is a close relationship with one's relatives?
300
Two Council Fires that lived on the edge of the great forest.
Who are the Yankton and Yanktonai?
300
***DAILY DOUBLE*** Dialects spoken in North Dakota.
What is Nakota and Dakota?
300
Dakota word for extended family.
What is tiospaye (tee-YOHSH-pah-yay)?
300
The way Dakota people look at history.
What is a circle?
400
Skills such as hunting and clothes making.
What is human capital?
400
Along the Minnesota River.
Where did the Mdewakanton live?
400
Council Fires who spoke the Dakota dialect.
What are the Sisseton, Wahpeton, Mdewakanton, and Wahpekute?
400
Dakota word for respect.
What is "wo ohoda" (WOH OH-hoh-dah)?
400
The four shapes of "parfleche" containers.
What are boxes, envelopes, flat cases, and cyclinders?
500
Mni Sota Makoce
What is a Dakota term meaning "land where the waters are so clear they reflect the clouds in the sky".
500
On the boarder of South Dakota and Wyoming.
Where did the Teton people live?
500
Number of dialects spoken outside the border of Minnesota.
What are three dialects?
500
Dakota word meaning "blue earth" and Minnesota city that is home to the Minnesota State Mavericks.
What is Mankato?
500
First person to write down the oral traditions of the Dakota people.
Who is Charles Eastman?
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