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Mni Sota Makoce Unit 1: Our Homeland

Total questions: 16

Worksheet time: 4hrs 45mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is a homeland?

a)

people living in a place

b)

a friend our alley

c)

Oceti Sakowin

d)

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

2.

What is indigenous mean?

a)

living in a certain place

b)

to have one’s origins in a particular place

c)

being born in a certain place

d)

All of these

3.

What is a citizen?

a)

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

b)

to have one’s origins in a particular place

c)

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

d)

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

4.

What is sovereignty?

a)

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

b)

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

c)

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

d)

to have one’s origins in a particular place

5.

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

a)

Land where the water meets the clouds

b)

Land with the purple mountains majesty

c)

Land with amber waves of grain

d)

Land where the clouds meet the sky

6.

What does Oceti Sakowin mean?

a)

Seven Campfires

b)

Seven Council Fires

c)

Seven Council Meetings

d)

Seven Fiery Clouds

7.

What is the name of the land in this picture?

a)

Waste Bdo

b)

Tituwan

c)

Oceti Sakowin

d)

Mni Sota Makoce

8.

What dialect does the Mdewakaƞtuwaƞ speak?

a)

N dialect (Nakota)

b)

D dialect (Dakota)

c)

L dialect (Lakota)

9.

What dialect does the Ihanktuƞwaƞ speak?

a)

N dialect (Nakota)

b)

D dialect (Dakota)

c)

L dialect (Lakota)

10.

What dialect does the Waḣpekute speak?

a)

N dialect (Nakota)

b)

D dialect (Dakota)

c)

L dialect (Lakota)

11.

What dialect does the Tituƞwaƞ speak?

a)

N dialect (Nakota)

b)

D dialect (Dakota)

c)

L dialect (Lakota)

12.

What dialect does the Waḣpetuƞwaƞ speak?

a)

N dialect (Nakota)

b)

D dialect (Dakota)

c)

L dialect (Lakota)

13.

What dialect does the Ihaƞktuwanna speak?

a)

N dialect (Nakota)

b)

D dialect (Dakota)

c)

L dialect (Lakota)

14.

Mni Sota Makoce is only referring to the state of Minnesota?

a)

True

b)

False

15.

What dialect does the Sisitunwan speak?

a)

N dialect (Nakota)

b)

D dialect (Dakota)

c)

L dialect (Lakota)

16.

Dakotas can vote for their own tribal leadership. But they also vote for the state governor and for the US president. This is an example of ________________.

a)

Mni Sota Makoce

b)

Oceti Sakowin

c)

Indigenous People

d)

Sovereignty