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The location of the Dakota people is the great plains. The absolute location is  41.4925° N, 99.9018° W. The relative is that they lived near the Eastern Woodlands.

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The Absolute Location of the Dakota Native Americans is in the Dakotas, Minnesota, Nebraska, and Montana, also A little bit of Canada. They lived In those places because they they relied on the meat of the animals that lived there and even a little bit of harvest. The Relative location is in the Great Plains which is the middle of America and the biggest land zone in America.

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One of the earliest documented disease pandemics in the history of the American West took place when.  European settlers moving westward during the 1830’s and 1840’s brought diseases to the Native American tribes of the Great Plains.  The Sioux traded regularly with other tribes of the Great Plains. They particularly liked to trade buffalo hides and meat to tribes like the Arikara in exchange for corn.

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The food that the Sioux tribe ate included the meat from all the animals that were available to hunt: Buffalo, deer, elk, bear and wild turkey. These were served with roots and wild vegetables such as spinach, and potatoes and flavored with wild herbs.  Sioux clothing was both "functional and beautiful".  The clothes were made by elk skin, deer skin and tanned buffalo hide.

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The weather in the Plains was dynamic.  Sixteen to seventeen inches was the average summer rainfall.  The growing season was June to August.  In the winter the snow was either heavy or medium.  The average temperature in winter was 23 degrees below zero. So lets talk about if they were peacfull In the spring of 1868 a conference was held at Fort Laramie, in present day Wyoming, that resulted in a treaty with the Sioux. This treaty was to bring peace between the whites and the Sioux who agreed to settle within the Black Hills reservation in the Dakota Territory so they were kinda peacfull. Or at least tried to be

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Each village had a village council. Each village council selected a chief. A chief served for life. In olden times, women had no say in government.
Lets move on to religion, religion was part of everyday life for the Sioux. They believed everything had a spirit.The Sioux were good hunters, but they also needed to trade for some other necessities. The Sioux traded buffalo parts and meat for corn and other plants, mostly from their cousin tribes like Mandan Hidatsa.