![]() He was one of the first Dakota men to become literate in Dakota and was the first employed to teach Dakota people to read and write Dakota. Waŋbdiokiya (c.1803–1899), Paul Mazakutemani's brother, was a leader in the Wahpetuŋwaŋ Sacred Medicine Dance Society, and a soldier for his cousin Joseph Renville. He died at Long Hollow, Sisseton Reservation, in 1885. Mazakutemani was the first President of the Hazlewood Republic and was the speaker for the Peace Party which opposed the U.S. By the 1850s, he had distinguished himself as the speaker for the Wahpetuŋwaŋ who were seeking permanent residence in Mni Sota Makoçe. He took the name Little Paul Mazakutemani. He said that he was the first Dakota man to take up farming and put on white men's clothes. Mazakutemani (C1806-1885) was a Wahpetunwaŋ soldier in Joseph Renville's soldiers' lodge when the missionaries arrived at Lac qui parle in 1835. Catherine died in 1888 and is buried at Ascension, Sisseton, South Dakota. She moved to the Upper Sioux Reservation in 1854 where she and her son, Towaniteton Lorenzo Lawrence allied with the Peace Party in 1862. Catherine was literate in Dakota and all four of her children learned Dakota and English. Tatidutawin, baptized Catherine in 1837, was the second Dakota Christian, following her sister-in-law Mary Tokanne Renville. She married Chatka, a Bdewakantuŋwan of the Little Crow family, who was a soldier for Joseph Renville. Tatidutawin (1803-1888) was a practitioner of herbal and spiritual medicine in the Wahpetu waŋ community here. He died of tuberculosis at Fort Wadsworth, Dakota Territory in 1869. Otherday led Roseanne and 60 other settler refugees to safety in the 1862 War, then joined Sibley's army as a Scout, fighting alongside white soldiers at Wood Lake. In 1862, known by the English name, John Otherday, Aŋpetutokeça was the leader of a band of Wahpetuŋwan on the Upper Reservation who farmed for subsistence, but did not belong to a Christian church. After the Treaty of 1858 and the death of his wife, he married a white woman, Roseanne. He died here, professing Christ, in 1846.Īnpetutokeça (c.1819–1869) a Wahpetunwan, was a member of Joseph Renville's soldiers' lodge. Renville brought Christian missionaries and their western lifeways to the region to help his relatives adapt. ![]() His fluency in Dakota and western cultures benefited Renville and his relatives until the fur trade began declining. ![]() In 1819, Renville followed fur trade opportunities west to the Upper Minnesota River, eventually establishing Fort Renville at Lac qui parle by the 1820s. Joseph sought a wife among his mother's people, marrying Mary Tokanne, and beginning to trade on the Upper Mississippi. Joseph Renville (1779-1846) was raised a traditional Kaposia Bdewakantuŋwan by his mother and was later educated in French, business, and the Catholic faith in Canada by his father, whom he later replaced in the fur trade. He grew up to be the first ordained Dakota pastor. At the time of her death, John Renville the youngest of her nine children, was nine years old. She died here in 1840 in her log-cabin home four and a half years after she and Joseph brought Christian missionaries to Lac qui Parle. Mary Tokanne was the first Dakota Christian. Tokanne married Joseph Renville, who established a fur post, Fort Renville, at Lac qui Parle, making this place a second home for her Bdewakantuŋwan kin like Little Crow. ![]() Tokanne (Mary Little Crow Renville) (1789-1840) was born a Kaposia Bdewakantuŋwan toward the end of the 18th century when tribes throughout the Midwest were actively developing kinship alliances via marriage into the Canadian fur trade community.
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