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The Dakotas, also known as simply Dakota, is a collective term for the U.S. states of North Dakota and South Dakota. It has been used historically to describe the Dakota Territory , and is still used for the collective heritage, [ 2 ] culture, geography, [ 3 ] fauna, [ 4 ] sociology, [ 5 ] economy, [ 6 ] [ 7 ] and cuisine [ 8 ] of the two states.
The Western Dakota are the Yankton, and the Yanktonai (Iháŋktȟuŋwaŋ and Iháŋktȟuŋwaŋna; "Village-at-the-end" and "Little village-at-the-end"), who reside in the Upper Missouri River area. The Yankton-Yanktonai are collectively also referred to by the endonym Wičhíyena ('Those Who Speak Like Men').
Considered the Western Dakota, they have in the past been erroneously classified as Nakota. [2] Nakota are the Assiniboine and Stoney of Western Canada and Montana. The Lakota, also called Teton (Thítȟuŋwaŋ; possibly "dwellers on the prairie"), are the westernmost Sioux, known for their Plains Indians hunting and warrior culture. With the ...
All pages with titles beginning with Dakota ; All pages with titles containing Dakota; North Dakota, a U.S. state; South Dakota, a U.S. state; The Dakotas (disambiguation) Dakota War of 1862, a conflict between the US and bands of Eastern Sioux; Lost Dakota, a small, remote exclave of Dakota Territory
Dakota has two major dialects with two sub-dialects each: Eastern Dakota (a.k.a. Santee-Sisseton or Dakhóta) Santee (Isáŋathi: Bdewákhaŋthuŋ, [4] Waȟpékhute, Waȟpéthuŋ) Sisseton ; Western Dakota (a.k.a. Yankton-Yanktonai or Dakȟóta/Dakhóta, and erroneously classified, for a very long time, as "Nakota" [5]) Yankton (Iháŋktȟuŋ)
The name refers to the Dakota branch of the Sioux tribes which occupied the area at the time. Most of Dakota Territory was formerly part of the Minnesota and Nebraska territories. [3] When Minnesota became a state in 1858, the leftover area between the Missouri River and Minnesota's western boundary fell
The West North Central states form one of the nine geographic subdivisions within the United States that are officially recognized by the U.S. Census Bureau.. Seven states compose the division: Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota and South Dakota and it makes up the western half of the United States Census Bureau's larger region of the Midwest, the eastern half of which ...
The Sihásapa lived in the western Dakotas on the Great Plains, and consequently are among the Plains Indians. Their official residence today is the Standing Rock Reservation [ 1 ] in North and South Dakota and the Cheyenne River Reservation in South Dakota, home also to the Itazipco (No Bows), the Minneconjou (People Who Live Near Water) and ...