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Some Dakota and Ojibwe placenames are based on Iowa language, a people that had significant presence in the Southern portion of the state until the 16th century. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Many [ 1 ] Minnesota placenames are translations or mistranslations, mispronunciations, or Romanized transcriptions of Native placenames and descriptions.
The Dakota (pronounced , Dakota: Dakȟóta or Dakhóta) are a Native American tribe and First Nations band government in North America. They compose two of the three main subcultures of the Sioux people, and are typically divided into the Eastern Dakota and the Western Dakota .
Many of the people did move westward, and many of their descendants live on reservations in South Dakota. In 1938 the federal government returned 746 acres (3.02 km 2) of land to the tribe, who were mostly landless, under the Indian Reorganization Act of the President Franklin D. Roosevelt administration. It also encouraged tribes to revive ...
The tribal headquarters is in New Town, the 18th largest city in North Dakota. Created in 1870, the reservation is a small part of the lands originally reserved to the tribes by the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851, which allocated nearly 12 million acres (49,000 km 2) in North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, Nebraska and Wyoming. [3] [4]
The Yankton Sioux Tribe is the only tribe in South Dakota that did not comply with the IRA and chose to keep its traditional government, whose constitution was ratified in 1891. [99] The Spirit Lake Tribe and Standing Rock Tribe also voted against the IRA. [ 100 ]
The Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara Nation (MHA Nation), also known as the Three Affiliated Tribes (Mandan: Miiti Naamni; Hidatsa: Awadi Aguraawi; Arikara: ačitaanu' táWIt), is a federally recognized Native American Nation resulting from the alliance of the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara peoples, whose Indigenous lands ranged across the Missouri River basin extending from present day North Dakota ...
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The Dakotas, also known as simply Dakota, is a collective term for the U.S. states of North Dakota and South Dakota.It has been used historically to describe the Dakota Territory, and is still used for the collective heritage, [2] culture, geography, [3] fauna, [4] sociology, [5] economy, [6] [7] and cuisine [8] of the two states.