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Hau Koda Tanyan yahi (Hello Friend It is good that you've come) This winter I plan on adding a couple more photographs and accomplishing some other website updates. I hope to add more family lines like I was doing previously but this time I would like to add eMail addresses so Wapasha researchers can get in touch with one another. I will post the eMail addresses as an image as I have below with my mad_rocque eMail address instead of a hyperlink eMail address to keep the researchers eMail addresses secure from being harvested by spammers. I have added a Wapasha Researchers Bulletin Board below. If you would like to post a message let me know. Pidamaya (Thank you)  |
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The purpose of this website was threefold; 1) to bring together descendents, researchers, and others around the world interested of the genealogy of the three Chief's Wapasha, 2) to compile and post Wapasha genealogical material and 3) to eventually develop a comprehensive Wapasha genealogy. Time has run out on me to complete this project. Hopefully, someone else can continue. These three Chief's were variously identified as Wapasha, Wapahasha, Wahpashaw, Wabashaw, and Wabasha, who prior to 1862 with their Mdewakanton people, inhabited the region on this continent now identified as southeastern Minnesota. There was no established written language for the people who lived, hunted and roamed this area in an earlier era. Early writers coming upon this bountiful place spelled their names as the names sounded to them which resulted in various spellings. Inasmuch as there are no recorded evidence of births, marriages and deaths of these early Mdewakanton Dakota people, one must rely on family lore and various other records to establish an approximate date of these three important family events. |
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Message for Lori Dollevoet Mary Kelly who had previously been in contact with you regarding the Sioux Panis connection to the Dubois family of Prairie du Chein has lost your eMail address because her computer crashed as a result of a lightning hit. She has found a clue to Antoine Dubois' age who is related to Margaret Gauthier Dubois Rolette. Please contact me at the eMail address above so I can forward her eMail to you. Posted January 17, 2010. Message for Descendants Of The Chiefs Wapasha If you would like your eMail address added to your posted information on this website I will add it as an image as I did with my eMail address at the top of this website. Posted January 16, 2010 |
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(1740 - 1876) A very good brief history of the three chiefs can be found in a transcription of a Steve Kerns article in the Winona Sunday News dated November 14, 1976, entitled "Explorers found hills, valleys alive with Indians". CLICK HERE |
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(All the relatives shall return home) The Seventh Annual "Great Dakota Homecoming and Gathering" will be held on Saturday and Sunday, June 5 & 6, 2010. Mitakuye Owasin (We are all related). |
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(All the relatives shall return home) The 38th Annual Traditional Wacipi honoring the 38 Dakota will be held Friday, Saturday and Sunday, September 17, 18 & 19 2010. All Nations Welcome |
Wapasha II Source: History of Wabasha County (MN), page 1273 
Wapasha II Another rendition from a different history book Source: Unreadable. 
Wapasha III - 1858 Source: Minnesota State Historical Society 
Dakota delegation Washington, DC - 1858 Back Row (Left to Right) Jos. R. Brown - Antoine Jos. Campbell Whale (Chief Has A War Club) Andrew Robertson - Red Owl Thomas Robertson - Nathaniel Brown Seated In Front (Left to Right) Mankato - Wapasha III - Henry Bellard Source: Minnesota State Historical Society 
Wapasha III - 1867 Source: A. Zeno Shindler American Indian Photograph Collection, American Philosophical Society 
Wapasha III Headstone Santee Reservation Source: Photo taken by Shawn Chase during 2002 Wabasha-Chase reunion 
Wapahasha IV Napoleon Wabasha aka Hdakinyan(Crosswise) Source: Photo image from Mark Diedrich's book The Chiefs Wapahasha [photo credit: courtesy of Rod Steiner] |
When you click on the links below your browser will open a new window to the site RootsWeb.Com Surname Message Board WAPASHA Messages posted here are also sent to subscribers of the WAPASHA-L mailing list. RootsWeb.Com Mailing List - WAPASHA-L To subscribe, type Wapasha in the Surname? block, and press the Search button. USS WAPASHA (YTB-737) This official Navy site was found and reported by Chris Miller. MNGenWeb Wabasha County Pages with references to the Chiefs Wapasha Wonderful genealogical website coordinated by Barbara Timm. Biographies & Histories of Traders / Merchants / Chiefs / Officers / Voyageurs Although Dale Nelson renumbers the Chiefs Wapasha on this site, it still contains excellent genealogical and historical information. All links above were valid as of 4/29/2009. |
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