Dakota Tribe Research Paper

At the beginning of this paper and before we go into deep details, I will go into some of the headnotes that give the reader sort of good view of the Dakota tribe. Essentially, the word Dakota means ally in their language, which is the Dakota Sioux language. The Dakota people are a Native American tribe located in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and South Dakota and North Dakota. The Dakota people are First Nations band government in North America and the largest division of the Siouan family. The Dakota tribe is divided into the western Dakota and the eastern Dakota. In this paper, I will be explaining traditions, manners, roles, dances, clothes, language, history of the Dakota to the present and many other aspects of their culture.
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The women in the Dakota tribe were responsible for their homes, they do the cleaning, cooking, and gathering wood. Moreover, the Dakota woman helped to build the family's house, also moving the heavy stuff while traveling is something that the woman in the Dakota tribe will do. Not to forget, the houses belonged to the women in the Dakota tribe. On the other hand, men in the Dakota tribe are most likely to be warriors and hunters, in charge of helping, feeding, defending the family from any danger that could happen including wars and animals attack. Most likely the man is going to be the chief or the leader of the Dakota tribe. Not to forget the children in the Dakota tribe. The children were normal, they play games with each other, go to the school, and help the house with anything the family needs. Although many Dakota children love to go fishing and hunting with their fathers. Obviously, back then many Dakota children had less time to do stuff, although they had toys and dolls to play with. Some old boys in some certain bands played lacrosse, which is a ball game. Mothers, on the other hand, carried the babies in something they called cradleboards that allow them to hold the babies tight on their …show more content…
Typically, the tipis would be around 12 feet high, but the Dakota people made the tipis twice the previous size because they acquired horses and tools so they need a bigger space. Today most of the Dakota people live in modern houses just like us, and they use the tipis just for fun or remembering their heritage and tradition. Looking for what they used to feed themselves, in general, the Dakota tribes were corn farmers, but most of their food is meat, buffalo to be precise, or sometimes elk and deer, they cook it in the pits. The Dakota tribe also used fruits, potatoes, and chokecherries which are a north American kind of