Spring
How did Dakota know Spring was around the corner?
What is, snow began to melt, birds started chirping
Where did the Dakota move for the summer?
What is A place with great farming land near a water source and a place with great sunlight
What type of home did the Dakota live in during the fall? Who owned this home?
What is A tipi. The women owned this house.
Where did the Dakota move for the winter season?
What does Dakota mean?
What is friend or ally
Where did the Dakota move to for the spring season?
What is Deciduous forest.
What food source were the Dakota preparing in the summer?
What is The Three Sisters
What were the men gearing up for in the fall?
To go out on their biggest hunt of the year.
Why did the Dakota move to the Coniferous Forest for the winter season?
What is it provided extra protection for their tipis due to the pine trees providing wind protection and protection from the snow.
What does it mean to be sovereign?
What is having their own government/land to live by and land to live within.
What was the main job of the Dakota culture in the Spring?
What is Collecting Maple Sap.
What crops were involved in the Three Sisters?
What is Squash, Green Beans, and Corn
What three animals were the men in search of?
What is B.E.D. (Bison, Elk, Deer)
What signaled that fall was over and winter was about to start?
What is the end of the wild rice harvesting season.
What does Kandiyohi mean?
What is place where the buffalo fish come
What jobs did the WOMEN have during the spring season?
What is, Women had to collect maple sap and fix up their bark homes.
What were the men doing during the summer?
They were going on trips to trade with other groups.
Describe how a tipi allowed the heat to stay in the tipi.
The tipi was in a cone shape which allowed the heat to circulate in the tipi without going out the top.
What were the roles of each group of people? (Women, children, elders, and men)
What is
Women and girls: Prepared deer hides while repairing clothes and making moccasins.
Elders: told stories
Men: Played ball on the ice
Children: Played outside and went sledding
What value were 10 year old boys learning if they were successful on their first hunt?
What is generosity.
What were the jobs/roles of everyone in the spring season? (women, men, children, elders)
What is
Women: Collect maple sap, fix bark homes
Men: Go out on long hunts
Children: Help with collecting maple sap, hunt small game animals
Elders: Help with collecting maple sap
Why couldn't the Dakota stay at their sugar camp to plant their crops?
Which direction would the Dakota face their tipi? Why did they do this?
What is East because the Dakota wanted to wake up with the rising sun.
Why were the Dakota spread out during the winter season?
What is because there were not many food sources available during the winter. Being spread out allowed families to hunt in a given area if they needed more food.
How did the Dakota refer to time? How is it different than modern day culture?
What is time is a circle. In modern day culture, we refer to time as a line.