tailieunhanh - Encyclopedia of World CulturesVolume I - NORTH AMERICA - S

Tự điển chuyên ngành nông nghiệp thế giới Vol1 - Bắc Mỹ - Vần S | Sarsi 307 Sanpoil The Sanpoil Nesilextcin N Puchle including the Nespelem and the Colville Skoylpeli Kettle Falls Indians lived in northwestern Washington along the Columbia River from Kettle Falls to the vicinity of Grand Coulee and north of the Columbia in the Sanpoil and Nespelem River basins. They now live on the Colville Indian Reservation with the Colville and other Plateau groups in Washington. They speak an Interior Salish language and probably number about one thousand. Bibliography Chance David H. 1973 . Balancing the Fur Trade at Fort Colville. Record of Washington State University no. 34. Pullman. Ray Verne F. 1954 . The Sanpoil and Nespelem Salishan Tribes of Northeastern Washington. New Haven Human Relations Area Files. Santee ETHNONYMS Eastern Dakota Isanyati Mississippi Sioux The Santee are an American Indian group consisting of the Mdewakanton Sisseton Wahpekute and Wahpeton four of the seven divisions of the Dakota. The other three divisions are the Teton Yankton and Yanktonai. The Santee spoke dialects of the Siouan Eastern Dakota language which is closely related to Lakota spoken by the Teton and Nakota spoken by the Yankton and Yanktonai . At the time of contact they lived mainly in what are today Minnesota northern Iowa and eastern South Dakota. Today they live on a number of reservations principally in the northern Midwest including the Santee Reservation in Nebraska the Flandreau and Sisseton reservations in South Dakota the Fort Totten Reservation in North Dakota the Lower Sioux and Prairie Island communities and Prior Lake and Upper Sioux reservations in Minnesota and several reserves in Canada. There are about six thousand Santee Sioux today. The first historical mention of these Dakota is in the Jesuit Relations for 1640 when they were probably living in eastern Minnesota and western Wisconsin. Their traditions point to an origin to the northeast and suggest that they once lived about the Lake of the Woods. There is also strong evidence