Dakota
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Dakota |
| Ethnie: | DAKOTA |
| Dialect: | Dakota |
| Language: | Dakota |
| Family: | Central Mississippi Valley Siouan |
| Stock: | Siouan Proper |
| Phylum: | Siouan |
| Macro-Culture: | Great Plains |
| The Sioux were a language group and culture. Prehistorically, they were apparently a component of the Indian Knoll Culture of the south, removing from that area about 1000 B.C. They became sedentary hunter/farmers along the Mississippi in southern Minnesota and northwestern Wisconsin. Ultimately, all of the Lakota and some of the Dakota and Nakota were driven out onto the Great Plains by the Chippewa where they became nomadic hunter/gatherers. This created an eastern woodlands division of the tribe and a prairie division, with the greater part of the population in the latter. |
| The Dakota were, for the most part, bellicose and had many enemies, particularly on the plains where they lived in a constant state of war. |
| Aboriginal Locations (Subdivisions) |
| Minnesota and Wisconsin |
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| Year | History |
| 1640 | First mentioned in the Jesuit Relation |
| 1798 | War with Menominee |
| 1801 | Smallpox epidemic |
| 1804 | Met by Lewis and Clark |
| 1862 | Eastern bands under Little Crow (Santee Uprising) killed 700 settlers, 100 soldiers; soon forced west |
| 1867 | Smallpox epidemic |
| 1877 | Sitting Bull fled U.S. and settled at Wood Mountain |
| 1881 | Sitting returned to U. S. and surendered |
| Year | Total Pop. | MB | MN | ND | NE | SD | SK | WI | WY | Source | |
| Arrival | 5,000 | 5,000 | |||||||||
| 1700 | 5,000 | 5,000 | NAHDB calculation | ||||||||
| 1800 | 4,000 | NAHDB calculation | |||||||||
| 1900 | 6,100 | 500 | 500 | 100 | 2,000 | 500 | 500 | 2,000 | NAHDB calculation | ||
| 1904 | 5,590 | Census U. S. | |||||||||
| 2000 | 12,200 | 2,000 | 5,500 | 500 | 2,000 | 1,000 | 1,200 | NAHDB calculation | |||
| 2004 | 16,619 | 2,541 | 6,722 | 2,000 | 2,500 | 1,399 | 1,457 | Various |
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