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Chapter 3: The Dakota Indians

Vocabulary:

  1. dialect – a variety of a language that is typical of a particular group or part of a country

  2. agricultural - having to do with farms and farming

  3. tiyospaye - main social unit of the Dakota; clan or band

  4. tipi - a cone-shaped tent of skins

  5. harmony - a pleasing combination of the parts that make up a whole

  6. supernatural - outside the natural world; spiritual or divine

  7. ritual - a system or form of ceremonies

  8. unity - the condition of bringing together in order to form a whole

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