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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

The Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate want to bury him next to his father on the Lake Traverse Reservation in northeast South Dakota.

From Seattle Times Mar. 24, 2023

Earlier in his career, Tim Wilson, a water project manager, spent time running the treatment plant in Wahpeton, Iowa, a community of just over 400 that expands when vacationers rush in during the summertime.

From Seattle Times Nov. 4, 2022

The ridge beyond the Wahpeton village bounded the view, and between this point and his own village were the agency buildings and the traders' stores.

From Old Indian Days by Charles Alexander Eastman

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

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

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

From Hawk Eye by David Cory

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