(?), or wrong reading instead of sotāso, sotāse (?)) J. 319 metaphorically, the stream of cravings Sn. Source: Sutta: The Pali Text Society's Pali-English Dictionaryġ) Sota, 2 (m. Yet white settlers were simultaneously attempting to wipe out Native people and force them off their native lands.Sota in Pali glossary Source: BuddhaSasana: Concise Pali-English Dictionary The state's name is among many examples of Dakota and Ojibwe words that became place names across the region. The state, established in 1858, took the same name. A later attempt succeeded in 1849, however, and the Minnesota Territory was born. The House of Representatives ultimately passed the bill with the name "Minnesota," spelled as it is today, but it died in the Senate, according to Folwell's history. Other representatives suggested "Jackson," "Washington" and "Chippewa," according to the 1908 book "Minnesota in Three Centuries."
The chairman of the Committee on Territories, a representative from Illinois, amended the bill to instead call the new territory "Itaska." Itasca is derived from the Latin words for "truth" and "head," referring to the Mississippi River headwaters. Mní Sota would take on new significance in 1846, when the first bill to create the "Minasota" Territory was introduced to Congress by Wisconsin Territorial Delegate Morgan Martin. This 1702 French map of the Mississippi River area includes a French interpretation of the Dakota word for the Minnesota River. Pierre." This is the French interpretation of Mní Sota Wakpa - the latter word meaning "river" in Dakota, according to "Mni Sota Makoce." One of the earliest surviving written references to Minnesota appears on a 1702 French map of the Mississippi River area, which dubs the Minnesota River "Ouatebamenisouté ou Riviere St. Pierre Day by a group that included several people named Pierre, according to "Mni Sota Makoce." Pierre - the French translation of "Peter" - because it was "discovered" on St. Le Sueur later wrote that they named it St. Peter's River, after French traders like Pierre Le Sueur encountered it in the late 1600s. "I think we can safely say that it's been called the Mní Sota river for a long time," he said. It is not known when the Dakota people began calling the river Mní Sota, since they did not keep written records, Šišókaduta said. The Minnesota River ultimately became home to many Dakota villages. The image is a white man's portrayal of Native people, but also offers a glimpse into Dakota life on the river. Eastman served occasionally as the commanding officer at Fort Snelling, among other roles during his career. Army Officer Seth Eastman in the 1840s or 1850s. This depiction of the Minnesota River Valley was drawn by artist and U.S. The tribe's creation story is that the first Dakota man and woman were created at Bdote, the confluence of the Minnesota and Mississippi rivers, according to "Mni Sota Makoce." "Our title, Mni Sota Makoce, uses the Dakota adjective sota with a regular 's,' meaning 'clear' or 'sky-colored,' so that it translates as 'land where waters are so clear they reflect the clouds,' " wrote the book's co-authors, one of whom is state poet laureate Gwen Westerman.Īrcheological evidence indicates that the Dakota tribe has lived in Minnesota for at least 1,000 years. "Mni Sota Makoce," a history of the Dakota people published in 2012 by the Minnesota Historical Society, combines in its title the words "Mni Sota" with "Makoce" - the Dakota word for land. "There's another word for water that's kind of murky, and kind of dark," he said. Some early white missionaries and explorers in the area believed the river's name meant the water itself was cloudy or turbid, according to a 1921 history of Minnesota authored by William Watts Folwell, the first president of the University of Minnesota.īut Šišókaduta said that most people who speak Dakota language use the fog or mist interpretation of šota. PODCAST Listen: Was organized crime behind the demise of Twin Cities streetcars? The Curious Minnesota podcast examines how underworld characters influenced the region's transit company in the mid-20th Century.
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