'21 Native American Heritage Month Quiz 3: US-Dakota War

True or False: Mni Sota Makoce, which means "the land of cloud tinted waters," is the original placename for what is now called Minnesota.

• True

• False

German settlers in Chicago and in Cincinnati were told once you cross the Mississippi, _____.

• There is free land

• There is more room for more settlements

• Nobody lives there

• There is already people living there

After the US government broke its promises, some Dakota people went to war. The fighting lasted:

• 6 weeks

• 7 weeks

• 8.5 weeks

• 10 weeks

The Dakota Oyate (nation) is made up of Seven Council Fires called:

• Bdewakantunwan

• Ihanktunwan

• Mitakuye Owasin

• Oceti Sakowin

The Dakota people are separated into 3 distinct groups (select all that apply):

• Eastern Dakota or Santee made up of Bdewakantunwan, Wahpekute, Sistunwan, and Wahpetunwan

• Middle Wakota made up of Ihanktunwan and Ihanktunwanna

• Western Dakota made up of Titunwan

• Lower Dakota made up of Bdewakantunwan and Wahpetunwan

True or False: Mitakuye Owasin means "all of creation."

• True

• False, it means "all our relatives"

The _____ were the first to negotiate with the federal government through treaties. They were also the first to rebel against it.

• Eastern Dakota

• Middle Dakota

• Western Dakota

• Northern Dakota

Minnesota US-Dakota War of 1862 marked the beginning of wars with the Oceti Sakowin nations that did not end until 1890 at _____.

• Fort Snelling

• Wounded Knee

• Mankato

• Battle of Little Bighorn

By 1854, the Euro-American population of MN territory was more than 30,000. Three years later it topped _____.

• 140,000

• 143,000

• 150,000

Beginning in the 1830s, US government policy supports the removal of American Indian tribes westward to make way for European immigrants. A series of treaties with the Eastern Dakota, beginning with an agreement made at the future site of _____ in 1805, led to eventual removal from land that became Minnesota.

• Wounded Knee

• Mankato

• Fort Snelling