'21 Native American Heritage Month Quiz 2: Dakota Placenames

Chaska in Dakota is Caske, which means:

• First born daughter

• First born son

• Where they paint the trees red

• Yellow medicine

True of False: Kandiyohi is a Dakota word for a type of fish

• True

• False

Mahtomedi (Mato Bde) means

• Buffalo Lake

• Bear River

• Big Water

• Bear Lake

True of False, Mankato (Maka to) means Blue Earth.

• True

• False

True or False: Minnetonka means Clear Water

• True

• False; it means "great water"

This word means "Curling Waters."

• Owatonna

• Anoka

• Minnehaha

• Chanhassen

True or False: Chanhassen means "Birch tree."

• True

• False, it means "red tree"

Shakopee (Sakpedan) means:

• Place of cleared trees

• On both sides

• Center

• 6th born child

True or False: Wabasha is named after a Dakota Chief.

• True

• False, it is named after the first people to live there

Wayzata (Waziyata) translates to:

• Towards the North

• Towards the South

• Towards the East

• Towards the West