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Q: What tribe does the name Dakota come from?
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Dakota's name comes from what?

The Dakota Indian tribe or her mother.


Where does the name Cheyenne come from?

From the Canadian French form of the Dakota shah


What is Dakota?

Dakota is the name of an Indian Tribe in the American mid-west.


What tribe gave North Dakota its name?

Dakotah


Was North Dakota named after an Indian tribe?

Yes, North Dakota is named for the Dakota Sioux tribe. Dakota means "allies".


What Indians lived in the area of South Dakota?

The Arikara Tribe - The Cheyenne Tribe - The Lakota and Dakota Tribes and the Ponca Tribe.


Where is the tribe Dakota?

"Dakota" is not the name of a tribe - it refers to a group of related tribes speaking the Dakota (eastern) dialect of the Sioux language. This group consisted of the Wahpeton, Sisseton, Wahpekute and Mdewakanton tribes. Today they live on reservations in Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota and Nebraska.


What language did South Dakota come from?

According to the South Dakota Tourism Bureau, South Dakota comes from the Siouan language of Sioux tribe and it means allies. There are three dialects of the language: Nakota, Dakota, and Lakota.


Is the Dakota tribe still around today and where are they currently located?

"Dakota" is actually the name of the Sioux Tribe in the Santee dialect. There are Sioux all over the U.S. and Canada, but their main reservations are in South Dakota. They also have reservations in Minnesota, Nebraska, Manitoba and southern Saskatchewan.


Who named Minnesota?

Minnesota, means "sky-tinted water" in the Dakota Indian Tribe


How did South Dakota's get its name?

The Dakotas are a Native American tribe, a sect of the Sioux, that used to live in and around what is now North and South Dakota. The region was known as the Dakota Territory, until it applied for statehood. The region was split in two, North and South, for political reasons.South Dakota got its name for being the southern half of the Dakota Territory, originally named for the Dakota Sioux tribe which inhabited the area. The United States acquired the Dakota Territory as part of the Louisiana Purchase in 1803.Dakota is a dialect of the Siouxan Languages and means "Alliance of friends." The other dialects are Nakota and Lakota.after the south Dakota's tribe and means ally or friend


What lagnuage did the Sioux tribe speak?

"Sioux" is not the name of a single tribe, but a collection of many tribes grouped by their dialect: Lakota, Nakota and Dakota. So for example the Wahpekute Sioux tribe spoke Dakota; the Yanktonai Sioux tribe spoke Nakota and the Oglala Sioux tribe spoke Lakota.These dialects are very closely related, but for example words containing an L sound in Lakot typically have an N in Nakota and a D in Dakota. Lakota kola (friend) is the same word as Dakota koda.