Human Capital
Vocabulary
Oral History
Dakota Life
Dakota Culture
100
What is Human Capital?
The knowledge and skills one has to enhance their ability to earn income.
100
This is a rectangular house made with poles
and covered with large overlapping strips of bark. The Dakota lived here in the summer.
What is a bark lodge?
100
According to Oral history, what created misquitos?
Medicine Bears ashes
100
True or false: men carried the tipis.
What is false? Women carried the tipi, men hunted.
100
This type of structure in which the Dakota lived, is made by stretching animal skins over a frame of wooded poles.
What is a tipi?
200
What was the Dakota people's human capital they worked to improve?
Hunting
200
This is an older member of the tribe who is respected
for his or her knowledge and wisdom.
for his or her knowledge and wisdom.
What is an elder?
200
According to Oral History, what did the man do in the story of the Ghost Wife, that made his family disappear?
Raised his voice in the tipi
200
What animal was a staple of the Dakota hunt?
Bison
200
Dakota women carried their babies on this wooden object.
What is a cradleboard?
300
What are is one way a person can improve their human capital?
Ex: Practice, Education, Staying Healthy, connecting with a coach/mentor
300
What is the Dakota word that means"land where the water is so clear it reflects the clouds in the sky?"
Mni Sota Makochee
300
According to Oral History, who finally kicked the Bear Family out of the Badger's House?
The Avenger
300
What value was being taught in the story, "The Ghost Wife?"
Respect
300
A special kind of container with geometric designs,
women made this item out of the hide of a bison, elk, or moose.
women made this item out of the hide of a bison, elk, or moose.
What is a parfleche?
400
What was one way the Dakota could improve their human capital?
Es: Hunting targets, staying healthy for long hunts, learning about animals and/or nature, connecting with an elder for help. 
400
The Dakota word meaning generosity.
What is ohanwaste
400
According to Oral History, what is one meaning of the hand print found at Jeffers?
Friendship, Grief, Death
400
This was one of the Dakota's favorite foods and
it grows in the shallow waters of ponds and lakes.
it grows in the shallow waters of ponds and lakes.
What is wild rice?
400
This is how Dakota men transported
bison hunted in the winter.
bison hunted in the winter.
What is a sled pulled by dogs?
500
What was the "income" of the Dakota people?
Food, shelter, survival
500
The Dakota word meaning respect and courtesy.
What is wohoda
500
According to Oral History, what was a lesson taught from the story of the Medicine Bear?
Do not stray from what you believe in.
500
What vaule was being taught in the story of "The Badger and the Bear?"
Generosity
500
The custom used by the Dakota of telling stories
about histories and legends in order
to teach about their culture.
about histories and legends in order
to teach about their culture.
What is oral tradition?