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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

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 Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate wrote to the head of the U.S.

From Seattle Times Mar. 24, 2023

South of it is now an Indian reservation, chiefly for Sisseton and Wahpeton Sioux.

From Travels in the Interior of North America, Part I, (Being Chapters I-XV of the London Edition, 1843) Early Western Travels, 1748-1846, Volume XXII by Alexander Philipp Maximilian

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

From Hawk Eye by David Cory

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

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