MN Hist. Ch. 5 & 6 Word Scramble
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Question | Answer |
A line made up of circles | Time - the beginning of history as we know it |
Generation | From birth to adulthood |
Glaciers | great ice sheets that have spread down from the Arctic |
Wild rice | A new an dependable food source that helped increase the population of ancient Minnesotans. |
Paleo - Indians | big game hunters, they left spear points |
Driftless area | Small part of southeast Minnesota that was never covered by glaciers |
Mammoths | like elephants with shaggy hair and long curving tusks |
Atlatl | A hinged stick that made it possible to throw a spear faster and farther |
Earth mounds | Over 10,000 of these were once built in MN to bury their dead |
Women, children and older people | Responsible for moving the camp each day or two while the others hunted |
mi-ta-ku-ya-pi | The Dakota called all living things, meaning my relatives |
o-ce-ti-sa-ko-win | The name of 7 groups of Dakota who lived around the headwaters of the Mississippi. |
Pierre Radisson | One of the first European to reach the country that is now Minnesota. |
Ojibway | Often called Chippewa, pushed steadily toward Dakota country. |
Sioux | White man had trouble with the Ojibway word for Dakota, so they began to call the Dakota this. |
Daniel Duluth | In 1679, this daring French fur trader made his way to one of the main Dakota towns, Mille Lacs. |
Louis Hennepin | One of many catholic priests who became missionaries in the French parts of North America |
Pierre Le Sueur | Built a small trading station on an island near the mouth of the St Croix |
White Fisher | An Ojibway chief who led the Ojibway to victory in an important battle against the Dakota |
Wabasha | the first of three Dakota Chiefs of this name, he marries an Ojibway woman. |
Horses | The Spanish brought these from Mexico in the 1700's |
Mdo-te | Place where Minnesota and Mississippi rivers meet. |
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