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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 Lake and Shakopee in Scott County, Minnesota.
The chief usually referred to today as Shakopee I was known to American explorers and Indian agents as the third-highest ranking leader of the Mdewakanton Dakota, after Chief Wabasha II and Chief Little Crow I. [1] He was the chief of a band of Mdewakanton Sioux called the Taoapa [2] and they had the largest village on the Minnesota River, located in the 1820s on the river's north bank, later ...
Norman Melvan Crooks (May 28, 1917 – October 20, 1989) was an American tribal leader who served as the first Chairman of the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community of Minnesota. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Crooks' son, the late Stanley Crooks , later served as chairman of the community from 1992 until 2012.
Seven Sioux tribes formed an alliance, which they called Oceti Sakowin or Očhéthi Šakówiŋ ("The Seven Council Fires"), [3] consisting of the four tribes of the Eastern Dakota, two tribes of the Western Dakota, as well as the largest group, the Lakota (often referred to as Teton, derived from Thítȟuŋwaŋ – "Dwellers of the Plains").
Chief Shakopee II (1858) Shakopee II (d. 1860) was a Mdewakanton Dakota chief who was known as "The Orator of the Sioux." [1] 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 ablest and most effective orators in the whole Dakota Nation."
The Rosebud Sioux Tribe applied for direct funding, but as of April, hadn’t moved forward with implementation of the program, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
He served on the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux's board of gambling directors for seven terms. [2] The Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community now employs 4,100 people, making the tribe the largest employer in Scott County, Minnesota. [5] Charlie Vig was elected Vice Chairman of the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community in January 2012. [2]
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