Dakota people Dakota people The Dakota people are a Native American tribe and First Nations band government in North America. They compose two of the three main subcultures of the Sioux people, and are typically divided into the Eastern Dakota and the Western Dakota. The Eastern Dakota are the Santee ("Isáŋyathi" or "Isáŋ-athi"; "knife" + "encampment", ″dwells at the place of knife flint″), who reside in the eastern Dakotas, central Minnesota and northern Iowa. They have federally recognized tribes established in several places. The Western Dakota are the Yankton, and the Yanktonai ("Iháŋktȟuŋwaŋ" and "Iháŋktȟuŋwaŋna"; "Village-at-the-end" and "Little village-at-the-end"), who reside in
Native American Women’s Health Education Resource Center became known as the Reproductive Rights Coalition and by 1994 included 150 women from 26 different tribes. In 1991, NAWHERC opened a women's domestic violence shelter. The "Agenda for Native Women's Reproductive Rights", which includes calls for culturally and age-appropriate sex education, affordable health care, reproductive rights and other issues for Native women, is still used in discussions today. NAWHERC runs a domestic violence shelter and has programs for AIDS prevention. They also provide programs about domestic violence, Dakota language and culture, and health and environmental awareness. NAWHERC also runs a hotline. NAWHERC collects information about Native women's health, often