Living Law,
Living LandSupport land rights

Nation

Wahpekute

Not yet reviewed by this nation. What follows comes from public records and research. It does not speak for the nation.

Region
Plains

In the record

The United States made 3 treaties and agreements that name Wahpekute as a party, from Treaty of Prairie du Chien (1830), Sauk, Fox, Sioux, Omaha, Iowa, Oto, Missouri to Treaty of Mendota (Mdewakanton and Wahpekute), 1851.

C. C. Royce’s 1899 schedule records 2 cessions of land from Wahpekute: about 740 thousand acres by this atlas’s estimate, counting overlaps once. 2 of them came through treaties made under documented pressure. The largest was Land of the Sioux (Sisseton, Wahpeton, Medewakanton, and Wahpekute bands) in Minnesota and South Dakota, ceded 1863 (area 440), about 738 thousand acres, ceded under Treaty of Traverse des Sioux (Sisseton and Wahpeton), 1851.

The atlas records 1 broken treaty promise involving Wahpekute: Dakota 1851 treaties, 1862 war and the Act of Feb. 16, 1863.

The records group it with Dakota and Oceti Sakowin (Great Sioux Nation). Today, Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe of South Dakota and Santee Sioux Nation, Nebraska carry this history, as their own pages or research records say.

Written from the records linked here; open any of them for its sources. This is what the United States’ treaty record says, not the nation’s own account.

Treaty under documented pressureShapes from the 1899 federal record: approximate, not legal boundaries.

The record over time

178018001850190019502000todayTreatiesTreaty of Prairie du Chien (1830), Sauk, Fox, Sioux, Omaha, Iowa, Oto, Missouri (1830)Sioux (Wahpekute, Sisseton, and Upper Mdewakanton) (1836) (1836)Treaty of Mendota (Mdewakanton and Wahpekute), 1851 (1851)Land takenLand of the Sioux (Sisseton, Wahpeton, Medewakanton, and Wahpekute bands) in Minnesota and South Dakota, ceded 1863 (area 440) (1863)Promises brokenDakota 1851 treaties, 1862 war and the Act of Feb. 16, 1863 (1862)

Circles are land the United States recorded as ceded, sized by acres and colored by how it was taken. Bars are treaties, broken promises, court cases and land returns.

Names

Each name shows where it comes from. A nation’s own name is shown as the nation writes it.

Names in treaties and records

Other names in English

Land recorded as ceded

Wahpekute About 740 thousand acres recorded as ceded by the end of 1894
  • Treaty under documented pressure740 thousand

Estimate from Royce’s maps; overlapping cessions counted once. Not a survey or legal measure.

2 cessions. Follow Wahpekute through the years on the map

Who is doing the work

This history belongs to living nations. Start with them:

Working with these nations

Native legal and land defense, nationally

Gifts go straight to each organization; this atlas takes nothing. Listing is not endorsement: how organizations are listed.

Connections

These links were matched automatically by name or date and have not yet been reviewed by a person.

Party to 3

Part of 2

Land recorded in this nation’s name 2, as named in the 1899 record

Present-day governments that carry this history 2

Named in 1

Sources

  1. plainshumanities.unl.edu/encyclopedia/doc/egp.na.107.htmlreference work
    four council fires: the Mdewakantunwan, the Sisitunwan, the Wahpetunwan, and the Wahpekute
  2. walk2unlock.ne.gov/markers/santee-sioux-tribe-dakota/reference work
    composed of the Mdewakantonwan, Wahpeton, Sissetons, and the Wapekute tribes
Research notes

NARA spells Wahpahkoota/Wahpacoota.

Kind
Nation
Confidence
Medium
Nation review
Not yet reviewed by this nation

Correct this record