Cloud Man
Dakota Chief (c. 1780 – c. 1863) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Cloud Man (Dakota: Maḣpiya Wic̣aṡṭa;[lower-alpha 1] c. 1780 – c. 1863) was a Dakota chief. The child of French and Mdewakanton parents, he founded the agricultural community Ḣeyate Otuŋwe on the shores of Bde Maka Ska in 1829 after being trapped in a snowstorm for three days. The village was seen by white settlers as a progressive step towards assimilation, yet members of the community maintained a distinctly Dakota way of life.[8] The community was abandoned in 1839 and Cloud Man's band moved along the Minnesota River to join the Hazelwood Republic.
Cloud Man | |
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Maḣpiya Wic̣aṡṭa | |
Mdewakanton Dakota chief | |
Personal details | |
Born | c. 1780[1] Near Mendota, Minnesota |
Died | c. 1863[1] Dakota concentration camp at Fort Snelling, Pike Island, Minnesota[1] |
Spouse | Canpadutawin (Red Cherry Woman) (1810)[2] |
Relations | Red Bird (brother in law)[3] |
Children | Wakaninajinwin (Stands Sacred Woman) (daughter)[2]
Inażiŋwiŋ (The Day Sets) (daughter)[4] Nancy Eastman (Wakantankawin, Great Spirit Woman) (granddaughter)[2] Mary Eastman Faribault (Tipiwakanwin) (great-granddaughter)[2] Lillian Evelyn Beane (Moore) (great-great-granddaughter)[2][5] |
Cloud Man died during internment at the concentration camp at Fort Snelling on Pike Island, which held nearly 1,700 eastern Dakota and Ho-Chunk non-combatants, mainly women and children, after the U.S.–Dakota War of 1862.[9][1]