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Minnesota History
Chapter 3 & 4 Study Guide
Vocabulary Words
1. Oral tradition: the custom of telling stories about the histories and legends of a group in order to teach about that culture.
2. Tipi: a cone shaped house made by stretching animal skins over a frame of wooden poles
3. Sugar camp: village location during spring, when Dakota made sugar from maple sap
4. Bark house: a rectangular house made with poles and covered with large overlapping strips of bark
5. Wigwam: a round dwelling made out of poles and saplings and covered with sheets of birch bark or woven mats
6. Pelts: animal skins that have been cleaned, stretched, and dried
7. Alliance: an agreement made between two or more different groups to join forces to achieve a common goal
Put the events in the correct order
8. Dakota sap collection
Collect the sap in small birch bark dishes = #3
Boil the sap until it becomes syrup and sugar = #5
Pound wood chips into the tree cuts = #2
Test the trees to see if the sap is running = #1
Pour the sap into troughs or clay pots = #4
9. Ojibwe migration story stops
place where a river connects two large bodies of water = #3
where there is a turtle shaped island = #1
where water rushes over rocks and fishing is good = #5
where there is a turtle shaped island = #7
where thunder and water meet = #2
where the foods grows on the water = #6
where a series of stones lead westward = #4
10. Fill in the missing information
Dakota life
Spring Summer
House: bark houses House: bark house
Location: maple sugar camp Location: villages along rivers
Food: maple sugar, muskrats, beaver, duck Food: corn, berried, fish, wild rice
Winter Fall
House: Tipi House: Tipi
Location: Deep in woods near river or lake Location: hunting grounds
Food: stored meat, rice and fish Food: Large deer, bison, bear
True or False
11. __True__ The Dakota remember their history through a practice called oral tradition
12. __False__ The Dakota once lived in permanent houses deep in the woods
13. __False__ The Dakota believe that time runs in a straight line
14. __False__ The Ojibwe lived in tipis
15. __False__ The Ojibwe learned from the Dakota how to make birch bark canoes
16. __True__ There were periods of peace and war between the Dakota and the Ojibwe
Peace Agreement
What did each group gain?
17. Dakota: gained access to European tools, cloth, and weapons to make life easier
18. Ojibwe: allowed to hunt/trap farther west into Dakota territory
19. Frenchmen: secured a reliable source of furs to send back to Europe and make $$$$
Ojibwe Fishing methods
20. List four or more details about the Ojibwe fishing methods
· Women hung weighted nets at night to be checked in the morning
· Used different tools like spears
· Men would cut holes in the ice and use a decoy to attract fish
· Would often set fish traps in shallow water
· Would use string and hooks much like today
21. Write 2 things in each circle – Dakota, Ojibwe, Both
Dakota =
· lived in bark houses and tipis
· made canoes out of hollowed out logs
· spoke the Dakota language
Ojibwe =
· lived in wigwams
· made canoes from birch bark
· spoke Ojibwe language
Both =
· lived in forests
· migrated with the seasons
· hunted game
· made sugar from maple trees
· collected wild rice