Wahpekute

[wah-puh-koo-tee]

noun

plural

Wahpekutes ,

plural

Wahpekute .

1. a member of a North American Indian people belonging to the Santee branch of the Dakota.

Example Sentences

Later that year, Mdewakanton and Wahpekute bands of the Dakota signed the Treaty of Mendota.

From Washington Times

The result was that a good number were despatched, and being tied together by the legs, were slung over the pommel of the saddle of 'Benny,' an old sabreur, who had frontiered it for years, been in more Indian fights than you could shake a stick at, and could tell, if he wanted to, of some high-old-hard times with these same Mdewakantonwar, Wahpekute, Ihanktonwannas, and Minnikanyewazhipu red-skinned fiends.

From Project Gutenberg