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WAHPETON 



[b. a. e. 



hunt on the St. Peter's [Minnesota r.], 

 also on the Mississippi, up Rum r., and 

 sometimes follow the buffalo on the 

 plains." 



They gradually moved up Minnesota 

 r., so that in 1849 they lived n. and w. 

 of the Wahpekute, their villages extend- 

 ing far upstream toward its source. 

 They had one of their most important 

 villages in the vicinity of Lac qui Parle. 

 Here missionaries established themselves 

 as early as 1835, at which date the tribe 

 numbered about 1,500 persons. Accord- 

 ing to Sibley (Minn. Hist. Coll., iii, 250, 

 1880) the lower Wahpeton were found 

 on Minnesota r., not far from Belle- 

 plaine; the upper Wahpeton villages 

 were on the shores of Lac qui Parle. 

 They were ultimately gathered with the 

 Sisseton on L. Traverse res. The esti- 



OTHER DAY- — WAHPETON 



mates of population vary from 900 to 

 1,500. In 1909 the Sisseton and AVahpe- 

 ton together, under the Sisseton agency, 

 S. Dak., were reported as numbering 

 1,936. They were participants in the 

 Minnesota outbreak and massacre of 1862. 

 According to Long (Exped. St. Peter's 

 R., I, 367, 1824) these Indians were 

 good-looking and straight; none were 

 large, nor were any remarkable for 

 the synnnetry of their forms. They 

 were, for the greater part, destitute 

 of clothing, except the breechcloth, 

 though some of the young men were 

 dressed with care and ostentation. 

 "They wore looking-glasses suspended 

 from their garments. Others had papers 

 of pins, purchased from the traders, as 

 ornaments. We observed that one, who 



appeared to be a man of some note among 

 them, had a live sparrow hawk on his 

 head, by way of distinction; this man 

 wore also a buffalo robe, on which 8 

 bear tracks were painted. . . . The 

 squaws we saw had no ornament, nor 

 did they seem to value themselves upon 

 their personal appearance. . . . Both 

 males and females have small feet and 

 hands. . . . The dress of the women 

 consisted of a long wrapper, with short 

 sleeves, of dark calico; this covered them 

 from the shoulders to the waist; a piece 

 of blue broadcloth, wound two or three 

 times round the waist, its end tucked in, 

 extended to the knee. They also wore 

 leggings of blue or scarlet cloth. Their 

 forms were rather clumsy; their waists 

 not very delicate; they exhibited a great 

 breadth of hips, and their motions were 

 not graceful." The village consisted of 

 skin lodges, yet they cultivated maize to 

 some extent. According to Pike the tribe 

 devoted a considerable portion of the 

 year to pursuit of the buffalo. 



Lewis and Clark mention two divisions, 

 the Wakpaatonwan and Otekliiatonwan. 

 Parker (Minn. Handbk.,140, 1857), adds 

 the Inyancheyakaatonwan and Inkpa. 

 Ashley (15th Rep. B. A. E., 216, 1897, 

 and letters) enumerates the following 

 l:)auds: Inyancheyakaatonwan, Takapsin- 

 tonwanna, Wiyakaotina, Otechiatonwan, 

 Witaotina, Wakpaatonwan, Chankagha- 

 otina, Inkpa, JNIdeiyedan, and Inyang- 

 mani. Waddapawjestin and the village 

 of Wahnacsoutah can not be identified 

 with any of these. 



Gens de Feuille.— Pike, Trav., 110, 1811. Gens de 

 la Feuille. — Badin (1S30) in Ann. de la Prop, de la 

 Fof, IV, 536, 1843. GensdesFeuilles. — Pike, Exped., 

 93, 1810. Houebaton.— Crepy.Cartedel'Am.Sept., 

 n. d. Houetbatons. — Du Lhut (1078) in Margry, 

 Dec, VI, 22, 1886. Leaf.— Drake, Bk. Inds.. viii, 

 1848. Leaf Nation.— Clark, MS. quoted by Cones, 

 Lewis and Clark Exped., I, 101, note, 1893. 

 Leaf Villagers. — Mazekootemane in Minn. Hist. 

 Soc. Coll., Ill, 83, 1880. Men of the River.— 

 Hennepin, New Discov., 184, 1698. Oetbatons. — 

 La Chesnave (1697) in Margrv, Dec, vi, 6, 1886. 

 Ouadbatons.— La Hontan (1700), New Voy., I, 231, 

 1703. Ouadebathons.— Hennepin, New Discov., 

 184,1698. Ouadebatons.— La Salle, Exped. (1679-81), 

 in Margry, Dec., I, 481, 1875. Oua de Battons. — 

 Hennepin, New Discov., map, 1698. Ouaepetons. — 

 Le Sueur (1700) in Margry, Dee., vi, 87, 1886 

 (trans. 'Gens de la Feuille'). Ouapetons. — Le 

 Sueur (1700) quoted by Neill, Hist. Minn., 170, 

 1858. Ouatabatonha.— Paehot (172'J) in Margrv, 

 D^c, VI, 518, 1886. Oudebaetons.— Raudot (1710), 

 ibid., 15. Ouyopetons,— Penieaut (1700), ibid., 

 V, 414, 1883. Ovadebathons. — Coxe, Carolana, 

 map, 1741. People of the Leaf.— INIinn. Hist. Coll., 

 Ill, 172, 1880. People of the Leaves.— Pike (1806) 

 quoted bv Schoolcraft, Ind. Tribes, in, 563, 1853. 

 People of the River.— Minn. Hist. Coll., I (1850-56), 

 336,1872. auioepetons.—LeSneur(1700) in Margry, 

 Di:^c., VI, 86, 1886. ftuiopetons.— Le Sueur (1700) 

 quoted bv Neill, Hist. Minn., 170, 1858. Sioux of 

 the Leaf.— Treaty of 1816 in U. S. Ind. Treat., 191, 

 1837. SiouxWahpatone.— Lewis and Clark Discov., 

 28, 1806. Wabipetons.— Keane in Stanford, Com- 

 pend., 542, 1878 (misprint). Wahkpatoan.— Long, 

 Exped. St. Peter's R., i, 378, 1824. Wahk-patons.— 

 Prescott (1847) in Schoolcraft, Ind. Tribes, ii, 171, 

 1852. WahpatoanSioux.— Ind. Aff. Rep. 1856,38, 1857. 



