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Wahpeton

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[waw-pi-tn] / ˈwɔ pɪ tn /

noun

  • Wahpetons,
    plural
  • Wahpeton
    plural
  1. a member of a North American Indian people belonging to the Santee branch of the Dakota.


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The Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate and Yankton Sioux tribes on Friday passed separate resolutions to prohibit Ms Noem from setting foot in their territory.

From BBC ● May 13, 2024

When she visited, that forthrightness struck Majel Boxer, a professor of Native American and Indigenous studies at Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colo., who is Sisseton and Wahpeton Dakota.

From New York Times ● Oct. 18, 2023

Braun’s son went to SDSU, and the recently retired physician’s assistant used to drive across the state line to her job in Wahpeton.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 4, 2023

Wahpeton, a mostly industrial town of about 7,800, is home to the Minn-Dak Farmers Cooperative, one of the largest sugar beet producers in North Dakota and Minnesota.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 6, 2022

It will be in the Wahpeton camp, before the sun reaches the middle of the sky.

From Indian Boyhood by Charles Alexander Eastman

At length the two boys took leave of the friendly Wahpetons.

From Hawk Eye by David Cory

About one hundred Sissetons, Wahpetons, and thirty young Yanktons, were present.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3 No 2, February 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various

An adventurer from the far-away country of the Wahpetons and a trapper from the hunting ground of the Sissetons drifted in together, together awaited the signal of the peace pipe ere returning to their own.

From Where the Trail Divides by Will Lillibridge

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