--- title: Dakota or Sioux — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · full text with trees description: Dakota or Sioux, «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: The name the French gave the fierce, strong Dakotas is Sioux, which is the way they pronounced the name given them by their A --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73136/19/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Wigwam stories told by North American…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73136/) / Dakota or Sioux # Dakota or Sioux Dakota or Sioux of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd: the whole text, 20 sentences and 366 words. The small number after every sentence leads to its own page with its syntax tree and pragmatics, parsed by Mova itself. The name the French gave the fierce, strong Dakotas is Sioux, which is the way they pronounced the name given them by their Algonquin neighbors.[1](1/ "tree and pragmatics") This has become the name of the people, and Dakota is the language which they speak.[2](2/ "tree and pragmatics") They are divided into many bands, each with a chief for a leader.[3](3/ "tree and pragmatics") His friends and relatives move their teepees wherever this chief thinks best on the land the Great Father in Washington has reserved for them.[4](4/ "tree and pragmatics") They are very brave and have many wise men among them.[5](5/ "tree and pragmatics") The chiefs of the bands are always ready to follow what the head chief of the nation commands.[6](6/ "tree and pragmatics") The head chief has learned that the Great Father in Washington has more warriors than he, and so the Sioux are not sent on the warpath any more.[7](7/ "tree and pragmatics") The buffalo and antelope are gone from the prairie.[8](8/ "tree and pragmatics") There is not meat enough in the woods, and the warlike Sioux has now to come to the Indian agency to get his rations.[9](9/ "tree and pragmatics") It is a fine sight to see the teepees of the bands when they have gathered at the agency.[10](10/ "tree and pragmatics") Even here they show their respect to the head chief and his followers, for his teepees are placed in the center of the camp.[11](11/ "tree and pragmatics") The greatest chief comes next, and so on, till the weakest band places its teepees last.[12](12/ "tree and pragmatics") The Sioux who have been long in the south do not speak like their northern relatives.[13](13/ "tree and pragmatics") For example, they say Lakota instead of Dakota.[14](14/ "tree and pragmatics") The northern bands laugh at their southern brothers, and think they have been trying to become different.[15](15/ "tree and pragmatics") Many Sioux boys and girls are in the schools at the agencies learning to write and to read in English.[16](16/ "tree and pragmatics") They are very quick to learn and can draw very well.[17](17/ "tree and pragmatics") The Sioux women make such beautiful beadwork that a white woman thought it wise to teach them to make lace of the choicest kind.[18](18/ "tree and pragmatics") The young squaws and some of the Indian boys have learned to make this rare point lace with care and wonderful neatness.[19](19/ "tree and pragmatics") They cannot use it; but the money they get for it buys food and clothes for them and their relatives.[20](20/ "tree and pragmatics") - ← previous: [The Moki Indians](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73136/18/) - next →: [Indian Games](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73136/20/) - ↑ back to [Wigwam stories told by North American Indians](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73136/)