Nakota
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Nakota |
| Ethnie: | NAKOTA |
| Dialect: | Nakota |
| 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 Nakota were, for the most part, bellicose and had many enemies, particularly on the plains where they lived in a constant state of war. T |
| Aboriginal Locations (Subdivisions) |
| Minnesota and Wisconsin |
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| Year | History |
| 1640 | First mentioned in the Jesuit Relation |
| 1765 | Some first reached the Black Hills, driven west by Chippewa |
| 1801 | Smallpox epidemic |
| 1804 | Met by Lewis and Clark |
| 1837 | Smallpox epidemic; sold all of their territories east of the Mississippi to U. S. |
| 1862 | Eastern bands under Little Crow (Santee Uprising) killed 700 settlers, 100 soldiers; soon forced west |
| 1984 | Pheasant's Rump established |
| Year | Total Pop. | MN | MT | NE | SK | Source | |
| Arrival | 2,000 | 2,000 | |||||
| 1700 | 1,000 | 1,000 | NAHDB calculation | ||||
| 1780 | Mooney estimate | ||||||
| 1800 | NAHDB calculation | ||||||
| 1900 | 5,600 | 5,000 | 100 | 500 | NAHDB calculation | ||
| 1904 | 5,000 | 100 | Census | ||||
| 2000 | 6,500 | 4,500 | 500 | 1,500 | NAHDB calculation | ||
| 2004 | 7,245 | 5,000 | 500 | 1,745 | Various |
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