Chief Whitecap
Chief Wapahaska (Floruit, fl. 1880s) (), also known as Chief Whitecap and , was a Dakota people, Dakota chief from the area now known as Whitecap Dakota First Nation, Whitecap Dakota Reserve. Founding of Saskatoon John Neilson Lake, John Lake of the Temperance Colonization Society of Toronto arrived in what is now Saskatoon in 1882 to survey the land. Whitecap advised that Lake begin the settlement on the east bank of the South Saskatchewan River, which would later become Nutana, Saskatoon, Nutana. Later life Whitecap was a participant in the North-West Rebellion, and was tried for treason after Louis Riel, Louis Riel's surrender. He was later found not guilty. References

{{reflist Dakota people 19th-century First Nations people First Nations history in Canada People of the North-West Rebellion Indigenous leaders in Saskatchewan Year of birth unknown Year of death unknown ...
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