What style of house did Dakota live in during the summer?

The Dakota people lived in teepees. Teepees were tent-like structures made of buffalo hides and long poles.

Did Dakota move with the seasons?

Historically, the Santee Dakota moved their villages and varied their work with the seasons. In the spring, the winter villages dispersed and men went on hunting parties, while women, children and the elderly moved into sugar camps to make maple sugar and syrup.

What were some of the causes that led to the Dakota War in the summer of 1862?

It began on August 18, 1862, at the Lower Sioux Agency along the Minnesota River in southwestern Minnesota, four years after its admission as a state. Through the late 1850s in the run-up to the war, late annuity payments from Indian agents caused increasing hunger and distress among the Dakota.

Is Dakota an Indian name?

Fun fact: Dakota is the name of a Native American tribe, a language and two US states: North and South Dakota.

Most of their diet was meat, especially buffalo, elk and deer, which they cooked in pits or dried and pounded into pemmican. The Dakota also gathered chokecherries, fruit and potatoes to eat.

How many died in the Dakota War?

Throughout the camp's existence, soldiers from the Sixth, Seventh, and Tenth Minnesota Volunteer Infantry Regiments guarded the stockade and controlled movement in and out. It is estimated that between 130 and 300 Dakota people died during the winter of 1862-63, mostly from measles, other diseases, and harsh conditions.

What major events happened in 1862?

Important Events of 1862

• April 29 New Orleans falls to Union forces during the American Civil War.
• May 20 US President Abraham Lincoln signs the Homestead Act to provide cheap land for the settlement of the American West (80 million acres in 1900)
• June 2 Robert E.
• June 19 Slavery outlawed in American territories.

What did the Dakota people do in the summer?

In the spring, the winter villages dispersed and men went on hunting parties, while women, children and the elderly moved into sugar camps to make maple sugar and syrup. During the summer months, families gathered in villages to hunt and fish.

Who are the Dakota people of North Dakota?

Some of the Dakota tribal communities that exist outside the ancestral homeland of Mni Sota include the Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe, the Crow Creek Sioux Tribe, the Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate of the Lake Traverse Reservation, the Yankton Sioux Tribe, the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, the Spirit Lake Tribe, and the Santee Sioux Tribe.

When did the Dakota Indians go to school?

A young Dakota boy growing up on a reservation in North Dakota in 1900 learned what he needed to know as an adult by going to school. The school teachers were not his parents or other Dakota adults.

Today, the continuation of Dakota communities, culture and connection to Mni Sota highlights the great resilience of the Dakota people. In Minnesota, there are still four federally recognized Dakota tribes (nations): Shakopee Mdewakanton, Prairie Island Indian Community, Upper Sioux Community, and Lower Sioux Indian Community.