Introduction to Minnesota
Geological formations that covered Canada and the Northern US and eventually formed the Great Lakes
What are glaciers?
A substance made from boiling tree sap
What is maple sugar?
The first European country to claim land in Minnesota
What is France?
One European country where many Minnesota immigrants came from in the mid-1800s
What is Norway, Sweden, Finland, Ireland, Germany, or Austria-Hungary
The side that won the US-Dakota War of 1862
What is the US?
A term for a carving made in rock
What is petroglyph?
An Ojibwe home, made with birch bark
What is a wigwam?
A workman in the fur trade
What is a voyageur?
St. Paul's original name
What is Pig's Eye Landing
The place where 1,700 Dakota were imprisoned
What is Fort Snelling?
The four states that border Minnesota
What are North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa, and Wisconsin?
A modern sport invented by the Ojibwe
Three main animals that were trapped for their furs
What are beavers, otters, and minks?
Where were the majority of European Americans from when the U.S. declared independence?
Dakota leader during the time of the war
A city in Minnesota where handprints in rock can be found that are 7,000 years old
What is Jeffers?
The Dakota word for the place where the Mississippi and Minnesota rivers meet
What is Bdote?
The right to govern self-government that the US acknowledged Native nations had
What is sovereignty?
The man who bought the land where Fort Snelling was built
Who was Zebulon Pike?
The man who asked President Abraham Lincoln to have mercy on the Dakota men sentenced the death
Who was Henry Whipple?
Dakota phrase from which the name "Minnesota" comes
What is "Mni Sota Makoce"?
The french word for the tool the Dakota used to transport things. It was made from poles and buffalo hide
What is a travois?
A gathering of fur traders in the summer before furs were shipped to Europe
What is a rendezvous?
The Indian Agent stationed at Fort Snelling
Who was Lawrence Taliaferro?
The colonel and former governor who led US troops in the war with the Dakota
Who was Henry Sibley?