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Wahpeton

American  
[waw-pi-tn] / ˈwɔ pɪ tn /

noun

Wahpetons 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

Democratic Rep. Alisa Mitskog, of Wahpeton, added that New Mexico - a competing oil-producing state - has already invested in child care assistance to attract workers.

From Washington Times • Apr. 22, 2023

The job demands can be heavy: in Wahpeton, Wilson not only ran the treatment plant, he plowed snow and testified as a zoning expert at local government meetings.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 4, 2022

Three hundred thousand of its choicest acres are now held in severalty by the fifteen hundred members of the Sisseton and Wahpeton Band of the Dakotas—the "Leaf Dwellers" of the plains.

From Among the Sioux A Story of the Twin Cities and the Two Dakotas by Creswell, R. J.

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