1. Dakota Indians
By Balla Boglárka

2. The Dakota People -Dakota/Lakota/Nakota=*the allies*
-Sioux=Ojibway name for the tribe, means *little snakes*
-Original Dakota homelands: now Wisconsin, Minnesota, and North Dakota and South Dakota
-13 Sioux political subdivisions, combined into seven major tribes (Mdewakanton, Sisseton, Teton, Wahpekute, Wahpeton, Yankton, and Yanktonai Sioux)

4. Homes
-large buffalo-hide tents called tipis (or teepees)

5. Lifestyle -Villages and work varied according to the seasons: Winter
Spring
Summer
Fall
Men
hunted and fished
hunting parties
moved to the year's chosen hunting grounds for the annual hunt
Women/
Children/ Elderly
gathered wood, processed hides made clothes
sugaring camps
cultivated crops

6. Clothing -women: long deerskin or elkskin dresses
-men: breechcloths with leather leggings and buckskin shirts
-moccasins
-buffalo-hide robes in bad weather
-warriors and chiefs: feather warbonnets (not in everyday life)

7. Clothing

8. Clothing

9. Religion -Passed orally -Belief of the unity and oneness of the world
-"wakan" or the "Great Mystery"
-Christianity

10. Social structure -Chiefs serve as an example
-Established laws enforced by young men who proved themselves heroic in battle
-Tribes split into bands

11. Thank you for your attention!