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Chapter 5 & 6

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A line made up of circles   Time - the beginning of history as we know it  
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Generation   From birth to adulthood  
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Glaciers   great ice sheets that have spread down from the Arctic  
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Wild rice   A new an dependable food source that helped increase the population of ancient Minnesotans.  
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Paleo - Indians   big game hunters, they left spear points  
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Driftless area   Small part of southeast Minnesota that was never covered by glaciers  
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Mammoths   like elephants with shaggy hair and long curving tusks  
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Atlatl   A hinged stick that made it possible to throw a spear faster and farther  
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Earth mounds   Over 10,000 of these were once built in MN to bury their dead  
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Women, children and older people   Responsible for moving the camp each day or two while the others hunted  
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mi-ta-ku-ya-pi   The Dakota called all living things, meaning my relatives  
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o-ce-ti-sa-ko-win   The name of 7 groups of Dakota who lived around the headwaters of the Mississippi.  
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Pierre Radisson   One of the first European to reach the country that is now Minnesota.  
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Ojibway   Often called Chippewa, pushed steadily toward Dakota country.  
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Sioux   White man had trouble with the Ojibway word for Dakota, so they began to call the Dakota this.  
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Daniel Duluth   In 1679, this daring French fur trader made his way to one of the main Dakota towns, Mille Lacs.  
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Louis Hennepin   One of many catholic priests who became missionaries in the French parts of North America  
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Pierre Le Sueur   Built a small trading station on an island near the mouth of the St Croix  
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White Fisher   An Ojibway chief who led the Ojibway to victory in an important battle against the Dakota  
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Wabasha   the first of three Dakota Chiefs of this name, he marries an Ojibway woman.  
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Horses   The Spanish brought these from Mexico in the 1700's  
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Mdo-te   Place where Minnesota and Mississippi rivers meet.  
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