The Dakota (pronounced ,
Dakota language
Dakota (''Dakhótiyapi, Dakȟótiyapi''), also referred to as Dakhota, is a Siouan language spoken by the Dakota people of the Sioux tribes. Dakota is closely related to and mutually intelligible with the Lakota language. It is critically endan ...
: ''Dakȟóta/Dakhóta'') are a
Native American tribe
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and
First Nations
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* Indigenous peoples, for ethnic groups who are the earliest known inhabitants of an area.
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band government in North America. They compose two of the three main subcultures of the
Sioux people, and are typically divided into the Eastern Dakota and the Western Dakota.
The four bands of Eastern Dakota are the Bdewákaŋthuŋwaŋ, Waȟpéthuŋwaŋ, Waȟpékhute, and Sisíthuŋwaŋ and are sometimes referred to as the Santee (''Isáŋyathi'' or ''Isáŋ-athi''; "knife" + "encampment", "dwells at the place of knife flint"), who reside in the eastern
Dakotas, central
Minnesota
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and northern
Iowa
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. They have federally recognized tribes established in several places.
The Western Dakota are the Yankton, and the Yanktonai (''Iháŋktȟuŋwaŋ'' and ''Iháŋktȟuŋwaŋna''; "Village-at-the-end" and "Little village-at-the-end"), who reside in the Upper
Missouri River area. The Yankton-Yanktonai are collectively also referred to by the
endonym ''Wičhíyena'' ("Those Who Speak Like Men"). They also have distinct federally recognized tribes. In the past the Western Dakota have been erroneously classified as
Nakota
Nakota (or Nakoda or Nakona) is the endonym used by those ''Assiniboine'' Indigenous people in the US, and by the Stoney People, in Canada.
The Assiniboine branched off from the Great Sioux Nation (aka the ''Oceti Sakowin'') long ago and moved f ...
, a branch of the Sioux who moved further west. The latter are now located in Montana and across the border in Canada, where they are known as
Stoney.
Name
The word ''Dakota'' means "ally" in the
Dakota language
Dakota (''Dakhótiyapi, Dakȟótiyapi''), also referred to as Dakhota, is a Siouan language spoken by the Dakota people of the Sioux tribes. Dakota is closely related to and mutually intelligible with the Lakota language. It is critically endan ...
, and their
autonyms include ''Ikčé Wičhášta'' ("Indian people") and ''Dakhóta Oyáte'' ("Dakota people").
[Barry M. Pritzker, ''A Native American Encyclopedia: History, Culture, and Peoples.'' Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000; pg. 316]
Ethnic groups
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The Eastern and Western Dakota are two of the three groupings belonging to the
Sioux nation (also called Dakota in a broad sense), the third being the
Lakota
Lakota may refer to:
* Lakota people, a confederation of seven related Native American tribes
*Lakota language, the language of the Lakota peoples
Place names
In the United States:
* Lakota, Iowa
* Lakota, North Dakota, seat of Nelson County
* La ...
(Thítȟuŋwaŋ or Teton). The three groupings speak dialects that are still relatively
mutually intelligible. This is referred to as a common language, Dakota-Lakota, or
Sioux.
The Dakota include the following bands:
*Santee division (Eastern Dakota) (''Isáŋyathi'', meaning "knife camp"
[)
** ]Mdewakanton
The Mdewakanton or Mdewakantonwan (also spelled ''Mdewákhaŋthuŋwaŋ'' and currently pronounced ''Bdewákhaŋthuŋwaŋ'') are one of the sub-tribes of the Isanti (Santee) Dakota ( Sioux). Their historic home is Mille Lacs Lake (Dakota: ''Mde W ...
(''Bdewékhaŋthuŋwaŋ'' "Spirit Lake Village" or "people of the mystic lake"[)
**:notable persons: ]Taoyateduta
Little Crow III (Dakota: ''Thaóyate Dúta''; 1810 – July 3, 1863) was a Mdewakanton Dakota chief who led a faction of the Dakota in a five-week war against the United States in 1862.
In 1846, after surviving a violent leadership contest ...
**Sisseton (''Sisíthuŋwaŋ'', translating to "swamp/lake/fish scale village"[)
**Wahpekute (''Waȟpékhute'', "Leaf Archers")
**:notable persons: ]Inkpaduta
Inkpaduta (Dakota: Iŋkpáduta, variously translated as "Red End," "Red Cap," or "Scarlet Point") (about 17971881) was a war chief of the Wahpekute band of the Dakota (Eastern or Santee Dakota) during the 1857 Spirit Lake Massacre and later West ...
**Wahpeton (''Waȟpéthuŋwaŋ'', "Leaf Village")
*Yankton-Yanktonai division (Western Dakota) (''Wičhíyena'')
**Yankton (''Iháŋkthuŋwaŋ'', "End Village")
**Yanktonai (''Iháŋkthuŋwaŋna'', "Little End Village")
***Upper Yanktonai
***Húŋkpathina or Lower Yanktonai
Language
The Dakota language is a Mississippi Valley Siouan language, belonging to the greater Siouan-Catawban language
Siouan or Siouan–Catawban is a language family of North America that is located primarily in the Great Plains, Ohio and Mississippi valleys and southeastern North America with a few other languages in the east.
Name
Authors who call the enti ...
family. It is closely related to and mutually intelligible with the Lakota language
Lakota ( ), also referred to as Lakhota, Teton or Teton Sioux, is a Siouan language spoken by the Lakota people of the Sioux tribes. Lakota is mutually intelligible with the two dialects of the Dakota language, especially Western Dakota, and i ...
, and both are also more distantly related to the Stoney and Assiniboine
The Assiniboine or Assiniboin people ( when singular, Assiniboines / Assiniboins when plural; Ojibwe: ''Asiniibwaan'', "stone Sioux"; also in plural Assiniboine or Assiniboin), also known as the Hohe and known by the endonym Nakota (or Nakod ...
languages. Dakota is written in the Latin script
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and has a dictionary and grammar.[
# ]Eastern Dakota
The Dakota (pronounced , Dakota language: ''Dakȟóta/Dakhóta'') are a Native American tribe and First Nations band government in North America. They compose two of the three main subcultures of the Sioux people, and are typically divided in ...
(also known as Santee-Sisseton or Dakhóta)
#* Santee (Isáŋyáthi: Bdewákhathuŋwaŋ, Waȟpékhute)
#* Sisseton (Sisíthuŋwaŋ, Waȟpéthuŋwaŋ)
# Western Dakota (or Yankton-Yanktonai or Dakȟóta)
#* Yankton (Iháŋktȟuŋwaŋ)
#* Yanktonai (Iháŋktȟuŋwaŋna)
#** Upper Yanktonai (Wičhíyena)
History
Before the 17th century, the Santee Dakota (; "Knife" also known as the Eastern Dakota) lived around Lake Superior
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with territories in present-day northern Minnesota and Wisconsin. They gathered wild rice, hunted woodland animals and used canoes to fish. Wars with the Ojibwe
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According to the U.S. census, in the United States Ojibwe people are one of ...
throughout the 1700s pushed the Dakota into southern Minnesota, where the Western Dakota (Yankton, Yanktonai) and Teton (Lakota) were residing. In the 1800s, the Dakota signed treaties with the United States, ceding much of their land in Minnesota. Failure of the United States to make treaty payments on time, as well as low food supplies, led to the Dakota War of 1862
The Dakota War of 1862, also known as the Sioux Uprising, the Dakota Uprising, the Sioux Outbreak of 1862, the Dakota Conflict, the U.S.-Dakota War of 1862, or Little Crow's War, was an armed conflict between the United States and several ban ...
, which resulted in the Dakota being exiled from Minnesota to numerous reservations in Nebraska, North and South Dakota and Canada. After 1870, the Dakota people began to return to Minnesota, creating the present-day reservations in the state.
The Yankton and Yanktonai Dakota ( and ; "Village-at-the-end" and "Little village-at-the-end"), collectively also referred to by the endonym , resided in the Minnesota River area before ceding their land and moving to South Dakota in 1858. Despite ceding their lands, their treaty with the U.S. government allowed them to maintain their traditional role in the Očhéthi Šakówiŋ as the caretakers of the Pipestone Quarry, which is the cultural center of the Sioux people. They are considered to be the Western Dakota (also called middle Sioux), and have in the past been erroneously classified as Nakota
Nakota (or Nakoda or Nakona) is the endonym used by those ''Assiniboine'' Indigenous people in the US, and by the Stoney People, in Canada.
The Assiniboine branched off from the Great Sioux Nation (aka the ''Oceti Sakowin'') long ago and moved f ...
.[for a report on the long-established blunder of misnaming as "Nakota", the Yankton and the Yanktonai, see the article ]Nakota
Nakota (or Nakoda or Nakona) is the endonym used by those ''Assiniboine'' Indigenous people in the US, and by the Stoney People, in Canada.
The Assiniboine branched off from the Great Sioux Nation (aka the ''Oceti Sakowin'') long ago and moved f ...
The actual Nakota are the Assiniboine
The Assiniboine or Assiniboin people ( when singular, Assiniboines / Assiniboins when plural; Ojibwe: ''Asiniibwaan'', "stone Sioux"; also in plural Assiniboine or Assiniboin), also known as the Hohe and known by the endonym Nakota (or Nakod ...
and Stoney of Western Canada
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and Montana
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.
Santee (Isáŋyathi or Eastern Dakota)
Migrations of Ojibwe
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According to the U.S. census, in the United States Ojibwe people are one of ...
people from the east in the 17th and 18th centuries, who were armed with muskets supplied by the French and British, pushed the Dakota further into Minnesota and west and southward. The US gave the name "Dakota Territory
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" to the northern expanse west of the Mississippi River
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and up to its headwaters.
After the Dakota War of 1862, the federal government expelled the Santee (who included the Mdewakanton
The Mdewakanton or Mdewakantonwan (also spelled ''Mdewákhaŋthuŋwaŋ'' and currently pronounced ''Bdewákhaŋthuŋwaŋ'') are one of the sub-tribes of the Isanti (Santee) Dakota ( Sioux). Their historic home is Mille Lacs Lake (Dakota: ''Mde W ...
) from Minnesota. Many were sent to Crow Creek Indian Reservation
The Crow Creek Indian Reservation ( dak, Khąǧí wakpá okášpe, '' lkt, Kȟaŋğí Wakpá Oyáŋke''), home to Crow Creek Sioux Tribe ( dak, Khąǧí wakpá oyáte) is located in parts of Buffalo, Hughes, and Hyde counties on the east bank ...
east of the Missouri River in what is now South Dakota. In 1864 some from the Crow Creek Reservation were sent to St. Louis and then traveled by boat up the Missouri River, ultimately to the Santee Sioux Reservation
The Santee Sioux Reservation ( dak, Isáŋyathi) of the Santee Sioux (also known as the Eastern Dakota) was established in 1863 in present-day Nebraska. The tribal seat of government is located in Niobrara, Nebraska, with reservation lands in K ...
.
In the 21st century, the majority of the Santee live on reservations and reserves, and many in small and larger cities in Minnesota, Nebraska, South Dakota, North Dakota, and Canada. They went to cities for more work opportunities and improved living conditions.
Iháŋkthuŋwaŋ-Iháŋkthuŋwaŋna (Yankton-Yanktonai or Western Dakota)
The Iháŋkthuŋwaŋ-Iháŋkthuŋwaŋna, also known by the anglicize
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d spelling Yankton (Iháŋkthuŋwaŋ: "End village") and Yanktonai (Iháŋkthuŋwaŋna: "Little end village") divisions consist of two bands or two of the seven council fires. According to ''Nasunatanka'' and ''Matononpa'' in 1880, the Yanktonai are divided into two sub-groups known as the Upper Yanktonai and the Lower Yanktonai (Húŋkpathina).
They were involved in quarrying pipestone. The Yankton-Yanktonai moved into northern Minnesota. In the 18th century, they were recorded as living in the Mankato
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(''Maka To'' – Earth Blue/Blue Earth) region of southwestern Minnesota along the Blue Earth River
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.
Most of the Yankton live on the Yankton Indian Reservation
The Yankton Indian Reservation is the homeland of the Yankton Sioux Tribe of the Dakota tribe.
The reservation occupies the easternmost 60 percent of Charles Mix County in southeastern South Dakota, United States and abuts the Missouri River a ...
in southeastern South Dakota. Some Yankton live on the Lower Brule Indian Reservation
The Lower Brulé Indian Reservation is an Indian reservation that belongs to the Lower Brulé Lakota Tribe. It is located on the west bank of the Missouri River in Lyman and Stanley counties in central South Dakota in the United States. It i ...
and Crow Creek Reservation
The Crow Creek Indian Reservation ( dak, Khąǧí wakpá okášpe, '' lkt, Kȟaŋğí Wakpá Oyáŋke''), home to Crow Creek Sioux Tribe ( dak, Khąǧí wakpá oyáte) is located in parts of Buffalo, Hughes, and Hyde counties on the east bank ...
, which is also occupied by the Lower Yanktonai. The Upper Yanktonai live in the northern part of Standing Rock Reservation, and on the Spirit Lake Reservation, in areas within central North Dakota. Others live in the eastern half of the Fort Peck Indian Reservation
The Fort Peck Indian Reservation ( asb, húdam wįcášta, dak, Waxchį́ca oyáte) is located near Fort Peck, Montana, in the northeast part of the state. It is the home of several federally recognized bands of Assiniboine, Nakota, Lakota, ...
in northeastern Montana. In addition, they reside at several Canadian reserves, including Birdtail, Oak Lake, and Whitecap (formerly Moose Woods).
Modern geographic divisions
The Dakota maintain many separate tribal governments scattered across several reservations and communities in North America: in the Dakotas, Minnesota, Nebraska, and Montana in the United States; and in Manitoba
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, southern Saskatchewan
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in Canada.
The earliest known European record of the Dakota identified them in Minnesota, Iowa, and Wisconsin. After the introduction of the horse in the early 18th century, the Sioux dominated larger areas of land—from present day Central Canada to the Platte River
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, from Minnesota to the Yellowstone River
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, including the Powder River country.
Modern reservations, reserves, and communities of the Sioux
(* ''Reserves shared with other First Nations'')
Notable Dakota people
Historical
* Hazaiyankawin ( Azayamankawin), Mdewakanton Dakota woman who ran canoe ferry service in Saint Paul, Minnesota
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*Inkpaduta ( Scarlet Point/Red End), Wahpekute Dakota war chief
* Ištáȟba ( Sleepy Eye), Sisseton Dakota chief
* Maḣpiya Wic̣aṡṭa (Cloud Man
Cloud Man (Dakota: ; – 1862/1863) was a Dakota chief. The child of French and Mdewakanton parents, he founded the agricultural community Ḣeyate Otuŋwe on the shores of Bde Maka Ska in 1829 after being trapped in a snowstorm for three days. T ...
), Mdewakanton Dakota chief
* Ohíyes'a (Charles Eastman
Charles Alexander Eastman (February 19, 1858 – January 8, 1939) was an American physician, writer, and social reformer. He was the first Native American to be certified in Western medicine and was "one of the most prolific authors and speaker ...
), Dakota author, physician and reformer who helped found the Boy Scouts of America
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* Snana ( Maggie Brass), Mdewakanton woman who saved Mary Schwandt during the U.S.–Dakota War of 1862
*Tamaha ( One Eye/Standing Moose), Mdewekanton Dakota scout for the U.S. during the War of 1812
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* Thaóyate Dúta ( Little Crow III/His Red Nation), Mdewakanton Dakota chief of Kaposia
Kaposia or Kapozha was a seasonal and migratory Dakota settlement, also known as "Little Crow's village," once located on the east side of the Mississippi River in present-day Saint Paul, Minnesota. The Kaposia band of Mdewakanton Dakota was est ...
band and military leader during U.S.–Dakota War of 1862
* Ti'wakan (Gabriel Renville
Gabriel Renville (April 1825 – August 26, 1892), also known as Ti'wakan (Sacred Lodge), was Chief of the Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate Sioux Tribe from 1866 until his death in 1892. He opposed conflict with the United States during the Dakota War ...
), Sisseton Wahpeton chief from 1866 to 1892
*Wapahaśa ( Wabasha II), head chief of Mdewakanton Dakota and Kiyuksa band in early 1800s
*Wapahaśa (Wabasha III
Wabasha III (''Wapahaśa)'' (c. 1816–1876) was a prominent Dakota Sioux chief, also known as Joseph Wabasha. He succeeded his father as head chief of the Mdewakanton Dakota in 1836. Following the Dakota War of 1862 and the forced removal of ...
), head chief of the Santee Sioux
The Dakota (pronounced , Dakota language: ''Dakȟóta/Dakhóta'') are a Native American tribe and First Nations band government in North America. They compose two of the three main subcultures of the Sioux people, and are typically divided into ...
*Wánataŋ (Wanata
Wa-na-ta (Dakota: Wánataŋ which translates as ''One who charges'', or ''Charger'') or Waneta was a chief of the Yanktonai, a tribe of the Dakota. Chief Wa-na-ta, also known as Wanata and Wanataan I, was born around 1795. The Yanktonai were lo ...
), Yanktonai Dakota chief
* Wánataŋ ( Wanata#Chief Wanataan II), Sisseton Dakota chief, son of the former
* Waŋbdí Okíčhize (War Eagle
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), Yankton Dakota chief of Santee origin
* Waŋbdí Tháŋka (Big Eagle
Big Eagle ( Dakota: Waŋbdí Táŋka, c.1827–1906) was the chief of a band of Mdewakanton Dakota in Minnesota. He played an important role as a military leader in the Dakota War of 1862. Big Eagle surrendered soon after the Battle of Wood La ...
), Mdewakanton Dakota sub-chief
* Zitkala-Ša (Gertrude Simmons Bonnin
Zitkala-Ša (Lakota: Zitkála-Šá, meaning Red Bird; February 22, 1876 – January 26, 1938), also known by her missionary and married name, Gertrude Simmons Bonnin, was a Yankton Dakota writer, editor, translator, musician, educator, and poli ...
, 1876–1938), Yankton author, educator, musician and political activist
Contemporary
* Ella Cara Deloria
Ella Cara Deloria (January 31, 1889 – February 12, 1971), also called ''Aŋpétu Wašté Wiŋ'' (Beautiful Day Woman), was a Yankton Dakota (Sioux) educator, anthropologist, ethnographer, linguist, and novelist. She recorded Native American ...
(1889 – 1971), author, ethnographer, linguist
* Vine Deloria Jr. (1933–2005), Standing Rock
The Standing Rock Reservation ( lkt, Íŋyaŋ Woslál Háŋ) lies across the border between North Dakota, North and South Dakota in the United States, and is inhabited by ethnic "Hunkpapa Lakota, Hunkpapa and Sihasapa bands of Lakota Oyate a ...
author, activist, historian and theologian
* Floyd Red Crow Westerman
Floyd Westerman, also known as ''Kanghi Duta'' ("Red Crow" in Dakota) (August 17, 1936 – December 13, 2007), was a Dakota Sioux musician, political activist, and actor. After establishing a career as a country music singer, later in his life ...
/''Kanghi Duta'' (1936–2007), Sisseton Wahpeton actor
* John Trudell
John Trudell (February 15, 1946December 8, 2015) was a Native American author, poet, actor, musician, and political activist. He was the spokesperson for the Indians of All Tribes' takeover of Alcatraz beginning in 1969, broadcasting as ''Radi ...
(1946–2015), Santee activist, American Indian Movement
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leader
Contemporary Sioux people are also listed under the tribes to which they belong:
By individual tribe
*
* Crow Creek Sioux Tribe of the Crow Creek Reservation
* Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe
The Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe ( dak, Wakpa Ipakṡaƞ oyáte) are a federally recognized tribe of Santee Dakota people. Their reservation is the Flandreau Indian Reservation. The tribe are members of the Mdewakantonwan people, one of the sub-tr ...
* Lower Brule Sioux Tribe of the Lower Brule Reservation
* Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community
The Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community (SMSC) (Dakota: ''Bdemayaṭo Oyate'') is a federally recognized, sovereign Indian tribe of Mdewakanton Dakota people, located southwest of Minneapolis and Saint Paul, within parts of the cities of Prior ...
* Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate
The Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate of the Lake Traverse Reservation ( dak, Sisíthuŋwaŋ Waȟpéthuŋwaŋ oyáte), formerly Sisseton-Wahpeton Sioux Tribe/Dakota Nation, is a federally recognized tribe comprising two bands and two subdivisions of the '' ...
* Standing Rock Sioux Tribe of North and South Dakota
* Yankton Sioux Tribe of South Dakota
See also
* Bdote Memory Map
Citations
Further reading
* Catherine J. Denial, ''Making Marriage: Husbands, Wives, and the American State in Dakota and Ojibwe Country''. St. Paul, MN: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2013.
* Cynthia Leanne Landrum, ''The Dakota Sioux Experience at Flandreau and Pipestone Indian Schools''. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2019.
* Waziyatawin, ''What Does Justice Look Like? The Struggle for Liberation in Dakota Homeland''. St. Paul, MN: Living Justice Press, 2008.
External links
About Dakota Wicohan
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