Native American people in the mid northern U.S. and mid southern Canada
For people with the name Dakota, see Dakota (given name).
Dakota
Charles Alex Eastman (1858–1939), physician, author, and co-founder of the Boy Scouts of America
Total population
20,460 (2010)[1]
Regions with significant populations
United States (South Dakota, Minnesota, Nebraska, Montana, North Dakota), Canada (Manitoba, Saskatchewan)
Languages
Dakota,[1] English
Religion
Christianity (incl. syncretistic forms), traditional tribal religion, Native American Church, Wocekiye
Related ethnic groups
Lakota, Assiniboine, Stoney (Nakota), and other Sioux
Dakota "ally / friend"
People
Dakȟóta Oyáte
Language
Dakȟótiyapi Wíyutȟapi
Country
Dakȟóta Makóce, Očhéthi Šakówiŋ
The Dakota (pronounced [daˈkˣota], Dakota: Dakȟóta or Dakhóta) are a Native American tribe and First Nations band government in North America. They compose two of the three main subcultures of the Sioux people, and are typically divided into the Eastern Dakota and the Western Dakota.
The four bands of Eastern Dakota are the Bdewákaŋthuŋwaŋ, Waȟpéthuŋwaŋ, Waȟpékhute, and Sisíthuŋwaŋ and are sometimes referred to as the Santee (Isáŋyathi or Isáŋ-athi; 'knife' + 'encampment', 'dwells at the place of knife flint'), who reside in the eastern Dakotas, central Minnesota and northern Iowa. They have federally recognized tribes established in several places.
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'). They also have distinct federally recognized tribes. In the past the Western Dakota have been erroneously classified as Nakota, who are located in Montana and across the border in Canada, where they are known as Stoney.[2]
^ ab"Dakota." Ethnologue. Retrieved 8 January 2013.
^For a report on the long-established blunder of misnaming the Yankton and the Yanktonai as "Nakota", see the article Nakota
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Global Information
United States (South Dakota, Minnesota, Nebraska, Montana, North Dakota),
Canada (Manitoba, Saskatchewan)