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Chapter 3 Test Flash Cards Review

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Oral Tradition   The custom of telling stories about the histories and legends of a group in order to teach about that culture.  
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Elder   An older member of the tribe who is respected for his or her knowledge and wisdom.  
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Tipi   A cone-shaped house made by stretching animal skins over a frame of wooden poles.  
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Sugar Camp   Village location during spring, when Dakota made sugar from maple sap.  
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Bark House   A rectangular house made with poles and covered with large overlapping strips of bark.  
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Ohanwaste   Dakota word meaning generosity.  
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Tiyospaye   Dakota word meaning extended families, including cousins, aunts, and uncles.  
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Wohoda   Dakota word meaning respect and courtesy  
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Wakinyan   The great storm-maker who cleans the earth and sky.  
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Unktehi   The Water Spirit  
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Tate Waziyata   The North Wind  
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Wicanhpi Hoksidan   Star Boy, the son of a woman and a star  
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Where did the Dakota live in the spring?   The village location was at the sugar camp.  
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Where did the Dakota live in the summer?   In the summer, they lived in villages of bark houses, along rivers where the soil was soft and sandy.  
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Where did the Dakota live in autumn/fall?   The villagers became a community on the move. Each family packed up its belongings and headed to the hunting grounds that the chief had chosen.  
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Where did the Dakota live in the winter?   In the winter, the Dakota set up tipi villages deep in the sheltering woods, near rivers or lakes.  
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Housing in the spring   In the spring, the Dakota lived in bark houses. A bark house is a rectangular house made with poles and covered with overlapping strips of bark.  
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Housing in the summer   In the summer, the Dakota lived at the summer villages of bark houses along the rivers.  
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Housing in autumn/fall   They set up tipis to live in during the fall. (They were a community on the move.)  
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Housing in the winter   The Dakota lived in tipi villages deep in the sheltering woods.  
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Food in the spring   In the spring their food was small game, such as muskrat, beaver, and ducks. The other food was sugar and maple syrup and sugar.  
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Food in the summer   Small game, fish, wild rice, cultivated corn, corn, blueberries, cranberries, venison, squash, beans, ducks, and crops.  
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Food in autumn/fall   Large game, such as bison, deer, and bear. They also had wild rice and crops.  
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Food in the winter   Stored corn, wild rice, dried meat, bison ribs, rabbit, and fish.  
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Activities in the spring   The children did chores and played in the woods, the men hunted, and the women made syrup at the sugar camp.  
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Activities in the summer   The boys would grind rice husks; the men hunted, fished, and wild rice; the women farmed, picked berries and nuts.  
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Activities in autumn/fall   The men hunted game, and the women dried meat and prepared animal skin.  
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Activities in the winter   The children used sleds, skated, and listened to elders' stories; the men ice fished, gathered firewood, hunted, and visited; the women tanned hides, sewed cloths, visited, and preserved food for winter.  
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Step 1 in the wild rice process   Host a celebration and make an offering to Unktehi  
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Step 2 " "   They tied the stocks of grain into bundles and let them stand there to dry for a few days.  
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Step 3 " "   They returned and struck the bundles with a rod so that the rice fell into the bottom of the canoe.  
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Step 4 " "   Rice was brought to the shore and placed on mats to dry in the sun.  
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Step 5 " "   Roast the rice over a fire  
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Step 6 in the wild rice process   Boys grind the husks off the grains by stepping lightly on them; place rice in a pit.  
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Step 7 in the wild rice process   Husks removed from the grains by shaking the rice  
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