6X Thursday Objective: Create a physical map of Minnesota. Describe the Dakota people of Minnesota during the 1500s-1700s. Agenda: 1.Do now: Finish your Minnesota Maps 2.Class Notes: Define key terms from page 25 of your Northern Lights Textbook 3.Northern Lights Chapter 3: The Dakota – Read, discuss, take notes 4.HW: Write a sentence for each of your key terms.

The Dakota – Key Terms (Northern Lights page 25) 1.Oral traditions: The custom of telling stories about the histories and legends of a group in order to teach about that culture. Example sentence: My family has an oral tradition that is full of stories about how our grandparents first came to the Americas. 2. elder: an older member of a tribe who is respected for their wisdom. Example sentence: My grandparents and great grandparents are elders who know a lot more than I do and give me words of wisdom.

3. tipi/teepee – a cone shaped house made by stretching animal skins over a frame of wooden poles. Example sentence: My family and I live in a tipi made out of bearskin. My family and I camped out in a tipi for three years made of squirrel pelt that I hunted myself. Because of the tipi’s cone shape, I was not able to make a bed. Just because they are cone-shaped, tipis can be made much bigger than you think.

4. Sugar camp – village location of the Dakota during the Spring when they made sugar from maple sap. This is also where the maple trees grow. Example sentence: They used the sugar camp so that they can prepare for the Winter and collect food. Every year, my family and I visit the sugar camp to see how the Dakota lived and made their sugar. I couldn’t wait to go to the sugar camp so I could taste the sugar from the maple trees.

5. Bark house – a rectangular house made with poles and covered with large, overlapping strips of bark. Example Sentence: Our bark house helped us stay warm during the cold winter because of the overlapping wood and protection from the wind until a deer ate the bark off of it. We got soaked during the rainstorm because the wood did not overlap in our bark house. Thank you, Ella! I used our bark house to store my food during the winter. I accidentally burned down the bark house with fire.

6. Ohanwaste – a Dakota word that means generosity. Ohanwaste is not in my blood, so I don’t have many friends. I have a lot of ohanwaste towards my elders. Max had a change of heart and has a lot more ohanwaste. He now shares his chocolate candy with me every Halloween.

7. Tiyospaye – Dakota word meaning extended families, including cousins, aunts, and uncles. Example: My tiyospaye came to visit us for Christmas, and I got to see all of my forty cousins. I visited my tiyospaye in Arizona, and it took forever because I have many aunts and uncles spread across the state. Every year my tiyospaye spoil me for Christmas by giving me lots and lots of presents. My tiyospaye came up for Christmas so we didn’t have very much room.

Wohoda – Dakota word meaning respect and courtesy. Example – My family has a lot of wohoda during Christmas. I do not show a lot of wohoda to my elders, so I am always grounded. MY family doesn’t give me any wohoda so I get mad at them. My dog doesn’t show a lot of wohoda to my cat. My tiyospaye show a lot of wohoda during Christmas. My cousins show a lot of wohoda over the weekend, but that’s the only time they do it. I don’t get much wohoda at the sugar camp because I am so much younger than the elders. My tiyospaye showed much wohoda when we were setting up our tipi in the sugar camp by presenting us the pelt of a ferocious bear that the elder killed with his bare hands.

Homework Write a story pretending that you are part of the Dakota people. Include the following details: -Environment -seasons -Home -Food -Hunting -Family