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Wahpeton · sisseton and wahpeton · wahpeton · WahpetunwanWahpeton
Not yet reviewed by this nation. What follows comes from public records and research. It does not speak for the nation.
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In the record
The United States made 4 treaties and agreements that name Wahpeton as a party, from Treaty of Prairie du Chien (1830), Sauk, Fox, Sioux, Omaha, Iowa, Oto, Missouri to Sioux (Sisseton and Wahpeton) at Washington, DC (1867).
C. C. Royce’s 1899 schedule records 11 cessions of land from Wahpeton: about 42 million acres by this atlas’s estimate, counting overlaps once. 9 of them came through treaties made under documented pressure. The largest was Land of the Sioux (Wahpeton and Sisseton Bands) in Iowa, Minnesota and South Dakota, ceded 1851 (area 289), about 25 million acres, ceded under Treaty of Traverse des Sioux (Sisseton and Wahpeton), 1851.
The atlas records 1 broken treaty promise involving Wahpeton: 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, Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes of the Fort Peck Indian Reservation, Montana, Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate and Spirit Lake Tribe 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.
The record over time
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
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Self-names
- WahpetunwanDakota (Latin)
Names in treaties and records
Land recorded as ceded
- Treaty or agreement960 thousand
- Treaty under documented pressure41 million
Estimate from Royce’s maps; overlapping cessions counted once. Not a survey or legal measure.
11 cessions. Follow Wahpeton through the years on the map
Who is doing the work
This history belongs to living nations. Start with them:
- Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes of the Fort Peck Indian Reservation, Montana
- Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate
- Spirit Lake Tribe
- Crow Creek Sioux Tribe
- Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe of South Dakota
- Lower Sioux Indian Community in the State of Minnesota
- Prairie Island Indian Community in the State of Minnesota
- Santee Sioux Nation, Nebraska
Working with these nations
- Rosebud Sioux Tribe (Sicangu Oyate) Nation government Pe' Sla (1,942 acres, Nov 30, 2012)
- Owamniyomni Okhodayapi (formerly Friends of the Falls) Native-led Dakota-led restoration and return of care for sacred St. Anthony Falls (Owamniyomni) site in Minneapolis, with… Give on their site Website
- Indian Land Tenure Foundation (ILTF) Native-led Land recovery and control by tribes and individual Indian landowners Website
- Lakota People's Law Project (program of Sacred Defense Fund) Native-led Legal advocacy Give on their site Website
- NDN Collective (LANDBACK Campaign) Native-led LANDBACK campaign (launched 2020; Mount Rushmore closure and return of Black Hills public lands), Indigenous… Give on their site Website
- Cheyenne River Youth Project (CRYP) Native-led Youth programs Website
Native legal and land defense, nationally
- Native American Rights Fund (NARF) Native-led Litigation and legal advocacy for tribal sovereignty, treaty rights, land and resources Give on their site Website
- Decolonizing Wealth Project (Indigenous Earth Fund; California Tribal Land Return) Native-led Reparative philanthropy Give on their site Website
- Honor the Earth Native-led Pipeline resistance, sovereignty, energy justice Give on their site Website
- Indian Law Resource Center Native-led Legal assistance to Indigenous nations to protect lands, resources, treaty and human rights Give on their site Website
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.
Land recorded in this nation’s name 11, as named in the 1899 record
- Land of the Iowa, Medewahkanton and others in Minnesota, recorded 1830 (area 292)1830
- Land of the Iowa, Medewakanton and others in Iowa and Minnesota, ceded 1830 (area 153)1830
- Land of the Iowa, Medewakanton and others in Iowa, Minnesota and Missouri, ceded 1830 (area 151)1830
- Land of the Iowa, Medewakanton and others in Iowa, recorded 1830 (area 152)1830
- Reservation of the Iowa, Medewakanton and others in Nebraska (area 154)1830
- Reservation of the Iowa, Medewakanton and others in Nebraska (area 155)1830
- Land of the Sioux (Sisseton, Wahpeton, Medewakanton, and Wahpekute bands) in Minnesota and South Dakota, ceded 1863 (area 440)1851
- Land of the Sioux (Wahpeton and Sisseton Bands) in Iowa, Minnesota and South Dakota, ceded 1851 (area 289)1851
- Land of the Sioux (Wahpeton and Sisseton Bands) in Minnesota, recorded 1851 (area 414)1851
- Land of the Sioux (Wahpeton and Sisseton Bands) in North Dakota and South Dakota, ceded 1891 (area 496)1867
- Reservation of the Sioux (Wahpeton and Sisseton Bands) in North Dakota (area 497)1867
Party to 4
Present-day governments that carry this history 3
Part of 2
Named in 1
Sources
- swo-nsn.gov/reference work
We proudly represent the Dakota people of the Sisitunwan-Wahpetunwan Oyate.
- sdtribalrelations.sd.gov/tribes/Sisseton-Wahpeton-Oyate.aspxreference work
Bands: Sisseton (People of the Marsh), Wahpeton (People on Lake Traverse)
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