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WAPAKONETA WAPELLO 



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Chippewa wdbakosi, 'it is white,' from the 

 radical wdp or tvcib, 'white.' (a. f. c. ) 



W a p a k neta ( Wa-pa-ko-rie^-ia, ' white 

 jacket' ) . A Shawnee village, named from 

 a chief, on Auglaize r. , on the site of the 

 present Wapakoneta, Auglaize co., Ohio. 

 The Shawnee settled there by consent of 

 the Miami, after losing their country on 

 the Scioto by the treaty of Greenville in 

 1795. They occupied it as their principal 

 village until 1831, when they sold their 

 reservation and removed to the W. It 

 was the residence of Logan. (j. m. ) 

 Logan's village. — Drake, Bk. Inds., bk. v, 134, 

 1848. Wapaghkanetta. — Johnston quoted by 

 Brown, VV. Gaz., 287, 1817. Wapaghkonetta.— John- 

 ston, ibid., 326. Wapahkonetta.— Sen. Doc. 137, 

 29th Cong., Istsess., 1,1846. Wapakanotta.— Drake 

 Tecumseh, 17, 1852. Wapakonakunge. — Gatsehet 

 inf'n, 1903 ('where Wapakoneta lived': Miami 

 name). Wapauckanata. — Harrison (1814) quoted 

 by Drake, Tecumseh, 159, 1852. Wapaughkonetta. — 

 St Marys treaty (1817) in U. S. Ind. Treat., 1034, 

 1873. Wapaughkonnetta.— W. H Shawnee in Gulf 

 States Hist. Mag., I, 415, 1903. Wapoghoognata — 

 Drake, Bk. Inds., bk. v, 134, 1848. Wappauke- 

 nata.— Brown, W. Gaz., 272, 1817. Warpicanata.— 

 Woodward, Reminisc, 36, 1859. Wauphauthaw- 

 onaukee. — McKenney and Hall, Ind Tribes, ill, 

 111, 1854. 



Wapakwe ( Wd-pa-kwe^) The Opossum 

 gens of the Mahican. 



Wapasha ('Red Leaf). A succession 

 of chiefs of the Mdewakanton Sioux, ex- 

 tending through tradition to a time imme- 

 morial. The first Wapasha of which 

 there is historical knowledge was born at 

 the head of Rum r., Minn., in 1718. Hia 

 father was a chief of the same name, and 

 his mother a Chippewa captive. In 1747, 

 through relatives of his mother, he ne- 

 gotiated peace between the Chippewa 

 and his own people. About 1763 an 

 English trader, known to the Indians as 

 Mallard Duck, was killed at his store at 

 St Anthony's falls by a Sioux named 

 Ixatape, in retaliation of which the Eng- 

 lish withdrew trade from the Sioux. By 

 this time they had become so dependent 

 on the traffic that destitution and suffer- 

 ing ensued, and Wapasha determined to 

 take the murderer to Quebec and deliver 

 him to the English. In company with a 

 hundred of his tribesmen he started with 

 Ixatape, but one by one the members of 

 the party returned to the Mississippi, so 

 that by the time Green Bay was reached 

 but few remained, and there Ixatape es- 

 caped; but, undaunted, Wapasha with 

 five others kept on, and, reaching Quebec, 

 offered himself as a vicarious sacrifice for 

 the sins of his people. His unselfish ac- 

 tion made a deep impression upon the 

 English, and he was afterward accorded 

 much honor. He led the Sioux in a well- 

 planned campaign in 1778 to drive back 

 the Chippewa and recover the ancestral 

 lands of the Sioux about Spirit lake, 

 Minn., but after some notable victories 

 his party fell into ambush at the mouth 

 of Elk r. and many of his warriors were 



slain. Two years later he was able to 

 avenge this loss upon the Chippewa in a 

 notable battle near Elk r. He served the 

 English in the Revolution, and upon his 

 visit to Mackinaw, Col. DePeyster, the 

 commandant, dedicated to him a poem 

 and made him the subject of a great ova- 

 tion. He served in the West with Lang- 

 lade, but his service was not of great 

 importance. Before his death, which 

 occurred about 1799, he established his 

 band at tlie site of Winona, Minn., at a 

 village called Kiyuksa (q. v.). 



Wapasha II succeeded his father and 

 inherited the latter' s mild temperament 

 and benevolent disposition. He came 

 into notice when he met Lieut. Z. M. 

 Pike, in April, 1806, at Prairie du Chien, 

 and advised the latter to make Little Crow 

 the American chief of the Sioux. He 

 conceived a liking for Americans which 

 proved to be lasting. Although he was 

 in nominal alliance with the English in 

 the War of 1812, he was constantly under 

 suspicion of disloyalty to them, and Rol- 

 lette, his son-in-law, was court-martialed 

 on the charge that he was in collusion 

 with Wapasha against English interests. 

 After the war he was very prominent in 

 all the relations between the whites and 

 the Sioux, and died about 1855. 



Wapasha III, known as Joseph Wa- 

 pasha, succeeded his father as chief of the 

 old Red Leaf band, and went with his 

 people to the reservation on upper Min- 

 nesota r. He was opposed to the out- 

 break of 1862, but when it was forced by 

 Little Crow he mildly assisted in it. 

 After the war he was removed to the 

 Missouri with his people and finally lo- 

 cated at Santee, Nebr. He signed the 

 treaty of 1868, which ended the Red Cloud 

 war, and died Apr. 23, 1876. 



Wapasha IV (Napoleon), the son of 

 Joseph, is (1909) nominal chief of the San- 

 tee at Santee agency, Nebr. He is civil- 

 ized and a citizen. (d. r. ) 



Wapato. See Wappatoo. 



Wapello ('chief'). Head chief of the 

 Fox tribe, born at Prairie du Chien, 

 Wis., in 1787. His village was on the e. 

 side of the Mississippi, near the foot of 

 Rock id., and not far from Black Hawk's 

 village. In 1816 it was one of the three 

 principal settlements in the vicinity of 

 Ft Armstrong, Iowa, opposite the present 

 Rock Island, 111. Although stout and 

 short of stature, Wapello was of at- 

 tractive appearance, owing partly to his 

 kindly expression; he was peaceful and 

 intelligent, and entertained friendly re- 

 gard for the whites. Like Keokuk, and 

 unlike Black Hawk, he was willing to 

 abide by the terms of the treaty of 1804 

 which provided for the removal of the 

 Indians to the w. of the Mississippi, and 

 in 1829 he quietly removed to Muscatine 



