Shakopee or Chief Shakopee (

Dakota language The Dakota language ( or ), also referred to as Dakhóta, is a Siouan language spoken by the Dakota people of the Očhéthi Šakówiŋ, commonly known in English as the Sioux. Dakota is closely related to and mutually intelligible with the Lak ...

: , ') may refer to one of at least three Mdewakanton Dakota leaders who lived in the area that became

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from the late 18th century through 1865: * Shakopee I *

Shakopee II Shakopee II (d. 1860) was a Mdewakanton Dakota chief who was known as "The Orator of the Sioux." He was described by Reverend Samuel W. Pond of the First Presbyterian Church of Shakopee as "a man of marked ability in council and one of the ables ...

* Shakopee III The name comes from the Dakota ''Śakpe'' meaning "Six." According to tribal histories, the very first "Shakpe" was called that because he was the sixth child of a set of

sextuplets A multiple birth is the culmination of a multiple pregnancy, wherein the mother gives birth to two or more babies. A term most applicable to vertebrate species, multiple births occur in most kinds of mammals, with varying frequencies. Such births ...

. Shakopee Lake near

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was named after one of the early Dakota chiefs named Shakpe. The city of

Shakopee, Minnesota Shakopee ( ) is a city in and the county seat of Scott County, Minnesota, United States. It is southwest of Minneapolis. Sited on the south bank bend of the Minnesota River, Shakopee and nearby suburbs comprise the southwest portion of Minneap ...

was named after Chief Shakopee II when it was first founded in 1851. The Little Six Casino operated by the

Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community The Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community (SMSC; Dakota: ''Bdemayaṭo Oyate'') is a federally recognized, sovereign Indian tribe of Mdewakanton Dakota people, located southwest of Minneapolis and Saint Paul, within parts of the cities of Prior ...

is named after Chief Shakopee III. Historian

Doane Robinson Jonah LeRoy "Doane" Robinson (October 19, 1856 – November 27, 1946Hoover, Herbert T., & Larry J. Zimmerman (eds.). 1989. ''South Dakota Leaders: From Pierre Chouteau, Jr., to Oscar Howe''. Vermillion: University of South Dakota Press, p. 43 ...

mentioned an Ojibwe (Chippewa) attack "at the village of old Shakopee, the father of the Shakopee of 1812" which occurred in 1769, about one year after the Battle at Crow Wing.

References

External links

Eden Prairie History — Three Chiefs Shakopee
{{DEFAULTSORT:Shakopee Native American leaders People from pre-statehood Minnesota Mdewakanton people Pre-statehood history of Minnesota Native American families