Wabasha III, was Mdewakanton-Dakota. His village was just up the river from the site of this cemetery.
Wabasha III (aka The Upsetting Wind) emerged as a tribal leader in the 1840's. At first strongly defiant against the government's control over his tribe, he was gradually persuaded to accept acculturation. He signed the 1851 and 1858 land cession treaties which created the southern half of Minnesota.
While at the Dakota Reserve on the Minnesota River, he came under the influence of Episcopal Bishop Henry B. Whipple and was eventually converted to Christianity.
He opposed the Dakota War of 1862 and afterward suffered the humiliating removal to Crow Creek, Dakota Territory, where 300 people died from lack of food and medical care. He then helped his people rebuild their lives at the Niobrara, or Santee Reserve in Nebraska, though for a decade they were plagued by uncertain land tenure, drought, grasshoppers and smallpox. He died in obscurity in 1876.
This census (http://www.us-census.org/pub/usgenweb/census/_na/1885-1930/ne/santee-sioux/1885.txt) has his native name as Catanna.
Wabasha III (aka The Upsetting Wind) emerged as a tribal leader in the 1840's. At first strongly defiant against the government's control over his tribe, he was gradually persuaded to accept acculturation. He signed the 1851 and 1858 land cession treaties which created the southern half of Minnesota.
While at the Dakota Reserve on the Minnesota River, he came under the influence of Episcopal Bishop Henry B. Whipple and was eventually converted to Christianity.
He opposed the Dakota War of 1862 and afterward suffered the humiliating removal to Crow Creek, Dakota Territory, where 300 people died from lack of food and medical care. He then helped his people rebuild their lives at the Niobrara, or Santee Reserve in Nebraska, though for a decade they were plagued by uncertain land tenure, drought, grasshoppers and smallpox. He died in obscurity in 1876.
This census (http://www.us-census.org/pub/usgenweb/census/_na/1885-1930/ne/santee-sioux/1885.txt) has his native name as Catanna.
Wabasha III, was Mdewakanton-Dakota. His village was just up the river from the site of this cemetery.
Wabasha III (aka The Upsetting Wind) emerged as a tribal leader in the 1840's. At first strongly defiant against the government's control over his tribe, he was gradually persuaded to accept acculturation. He signed the 1851 and 1858 land cession treaties which created the southern half of Minnesota.
While at the Dakota Reserve on the Minnesota River, he came under the influence of Episcopal Bishop Henry B. Whipple and was eventually converted to Christianity.
He opposed the Dakota War of 1862 and afterward suffered the humiliating removal to Crow Creek, Dakota Territory, where 300 people died from lack of food and medical care. He then helped his people rebuild their lives at the Niobrara, or Santee Reserve in Nebraska, though for a decade they were plagued by uncertain land tenure, drought, grasshoppers and smallpox. He died in obscurity in 1876.
This census (http://www.us-census.org/pub/usgenweb/census/_na/1885-1930/ne/santee-sioux/1885.txt) has his native name as Catanna.
Wabasha III (aka The Upsetting Wind) emerged as a tribal leader in the 1840's. At first strongly defiant against the government's control over his tribe, he was gradually persuaded to accept acculturation. He signed the 1851 and 1858 land cession treaties which created the southern half of Minnesota.
While at the Dakota Reserve on the Minnesota River, he came under the influence of Episcopal Bishop Henry B. Whipple and was eventually converted to Christianity.
He opposed the Dakota War of 1862 and afterward suffered the humiliating removal to Crow Creek, Dakota Territory, where 300 people died from lack of food and medical care. He then helped his people rebuild their lives at the Niobrara, or Santee Reserve in Nebraska, though for a decade they were plagued by uncertain land tenure, drought, grasshoppers and smallpox. He died in obscurity in 1876.
This census (http://www.us-census.org/pub/usgenweb/census/_na/1885-1930/ne/santee-sioux/1885.txt) has his native name as Catanna.
Inscription
CHIEF
MDEWAKANTON - DAKOTA
BURIED ON THIS SITE
