Mni Sota Makoce Unit 1: Our Homeland

What is a homeland?

• people living in a place

• a friend our alley

• Oceti Sakowin

• a place or region that a group of people calls their home

What is indigenous mean?

• living in a certain place

• to have one’s origins in a particular place

• being born in a certain place

• All of these

What is a citizen?

• a person who lives in a particular place or has rights and legal status and protection in a certain country

• to have one’s origins in a particular place

• when a government has the power to: make treaties, make laws, establish systems of justice, require its people to abide by established laws

• a place or region that a group of people call their home

What is sovereignty?

• a place or region that a group of people call their home

• a person who lives in a particular place or has rights and legal status and protection in a certain country

• when a government has the power to: make treaties, make laws, establish systems of justice, require its people to abide by established laws

• to have one’s origins in a particular place

What does the term "Mni Sota Makoce" mean in Dakota?

• Land where the water meets the clouds

• Land with the purple mountains majesty

• Land with amber waves of grain

• Land where the clouds meet the sky

What does Oceti Sakowin mean?

• Seven Campfires

• Seven Council Fires

• Seven Council Meetings

• Seven Fiery Clouds

What is the name of the land in this picture?

• Waste Bdo

• Tituwan

• Oceti Sakowin

• Mni Sota Makoce

What dialect does the Mdewakaƞtuwaƞ speak?

• N dialect (Nakota)

• D dialect (Dakota)

• L dialect (Lakota)

What dialect does the Ihanktuƞwaƞ speak?

• N dialect (Nakota)

• D dialect (Dakota)

• L dialect (Lakota)

What dialect does the Waḣpekute speak?

• N dialect (Nakota)

• D dialect (Dakota)

• L dialect (Lakota)