Dakota
These are the first people to live on this land we now call Minnesota.
Who are the Dakota?
These were the two sides that fought in the US/Dakota War.
What is the United States and the Dakota?
These were the two sides during the Civil War in the US.
What is the North and the South?
This is the fancy word for a right to vote.
What is suffrage?
This is the picture on the map that tells you the directions.
What is a compass (rose)?
Voyageurs traveled to Minnesota to trade beaver furs with Dakota so Europeans could make these for wealthy, fashionable men.
What are top hats?
38 Dakota men were executed for participating in the US/Dakota War in this Minnesota town. A ride is done to this town every year to honor what happened.
What is Mankato?
Minnesotans fought on this side of the war.
What was the North?
What we now know as Black History Month, originally started as a ______ long celebration.
What is a week?
This part of a map has all the symbols listed.
What is a legend or key?
The Badger and the Bear is an example of this type of story, told by older adults in the Dakota community.
What is an elder story?
This is the name of the land reserved (or set aside) for the Dakota in treaties with the US Government.
What are reservations?
This war was fought in Minnesota at the same time as the US Civil War.
What was the US/Dakota War?
Women promoted their cause for the right to vote by designing and wearing these.
What are buttons?
This country is directly north of the United States.
What is Canada?
This Indigenous tribe migrated into the land we now call Minnesota. Omakayas was a member of this group.
Who are the Ojibwe?
These are documents that were signed between the Dakota and the USA government that the USA did not follow.
What are treaties?
Many soldiers suffered from post traumatic stress disorder after the Civil War. At the time it was called this and is also the name of the book we read about Charley Godard.
What was Soldier's Heart?
This amendment to the US Constitution gave (white) women the right to vote in 1920.
What is the 19th amendment?
This country is directly south of the United States.
What is Mexico?
Often done on animal hide (skin), one member of the Dakota community would draw a picture once a year on THIS to record an important historical event for that year.
What is the Winter Count?
This was the year the 6-week long war took place between the Dakota and the US.
What is 1862?
What is 1865?
February was chosen as BHM because these two men who fought for equal rights for Black Americans have birthdays in this month.
Who is Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln?
A person who creates maps is called this.
What is a cartographer?