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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. Mdewakanton, pronounced Mid-ah-wah-kah-ton, means "dwellers ...
Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community awarded a grant in 2024 to the Minnesota Historical Society Press to produce a young adult edition of Mni Sota Makoce for use in schools. [54] Mni Sota Makoce is available in ebook format (ISBN 978-0-87351-883-3). [1]
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 ...
Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community (also known as: Shakopee Mdewakanton Dakota Community or Shakopee Tribe) on Shakopee-Mdewakanton Indian Reservation (Mdewakanton, Wahpekute) Prairie Island Indian Community on Prairie Island Indian Community ( Tinta Winta in Dakota) (Mdewakanton, Wahpekute)
Scott County Association for Leadership and Efficiency (SCALE), Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community. Swinomish Climate Change Initiative, Swinomish Indian Tribal Community. —2015 Honorees— Academic Readiness Effort, Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians. Ho-Chunk Village, Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska.
Lower Sioux Indian Community in the State of Minnesota; Prairie Island Indian Community in the State of Minnesota; Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians, Minnesota; Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community of Minnesota; Upper Sioux Community, Minnesota; Multiple states: Ho-Chunk Nation of Wisconsin (also in Minnesota) (previously listed as Wisconsin ...
83.7(b): "Community: The petitioner demonstrates that it comprises a distinct community and existed as a community from 1900 until the present." [ 7 ] 83.7(c): " Political influence or authority : The petitioner demonstrates that it has maintained political influence or authority over its members as an autonomous entity from 1900 until the ...
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]