Category 1: Vocabulary 1
An official agreement between two countries or sovereign groups.
What is a Treaty?
Annual payments of money, food, and goods the Native Americans received in exchange for ceding their lands.
What are Annuities?
The first treaty that the U.S. Government made with the Dakota
What is the Treaty of 1805?
Three things that the Ojibwe have the right to do in their old homelands. These are called Treaty Rights.
What are hunt, fish, and harvest wild rice?
The American officer who bought 100,000 acres of land from the Dakota in 1805. This was the first treaty the Dakota made with the US.
Who is Zebulon Pike?
A small plot of land that was set aside for Dakota or Ojibwe people to preserve their culture.
What is a Reservation?
To officially a approve a treaty?
What does is Ratify?
Two treaties signed in 1851 giving the United States ownership of nearly all of Southern Minnesota.
What were the Treaty of Mendota and Treaty of Traverse des Sioux?
The end of this caused many Ojibwe & Dakota sign treaties for money.
What was the Fur Trade?
What the Dakota people call the area of land where the Minnesota and Mississippi Rivers meet.
What is Bdote?
Owing someone money.
What is debt?
Land or property given to another person or group.
What is Cession?
The year the last land cession treaty was signed with the Ojibwe in Minnesota.
What is 1867?
A treaty that set boundaries for Native Americans and also made land easier to divide and sell for the U.S.
What was the Treaty of Prairie du Chie?
The first United States government building in Minnesota.
What is Fort Snelling?
Land owned by the US but not a state. Minnesota was this before it became a state!
What is Territory?
Someone who buys and sells land.
What is a land speculator?
A fur trader later who later became involved in negotiating and writing treaties
Who was Henry Sibley?
The total number of reservations (Ojibwe + Dakota) in Minnesota today.
What is 11?
The amount the value of the land bought from the Dakota in 1805. The US paid $2000 for it.
What is $200,000?
The process of taking on another group’s beliefs, habits, and values.
What is Assimilation?
After the Louisiana Purchase, the United States began growing west, which was called this.
What is Westward Expansion?
The first governor of the Minnesota Territory.
Who was Alexander Ramsey?
People that the Ojibwe and Dakota were heavily in debt to.
There was often a secret part (clause) in treaties that would pay these people before the Ojibwe & Dakota received any money.
Who are fur traders?
The year Fort Snelling began construction.
What was 1819?