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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 ...
Taoapa (A band of Mdewakanton Sioux, formerly living on the Minnesota River in the present Scott co., Minn., and hunting between it and the Mississippi. Their village, generally known as Shakopee's Village , or Little Six's Village, from the chief of the band, was on the left bank of the river and the cemetery on the opposite side in 1835.) [ 8 ]
Shakopee Lake near Mille Lacs Lake was named after one of the early Dakota chiefs named Shakpe. The city of Shakopee, Minnesota was named after Chief Shakopee II when it was first founded in 1851. [2] The Little Six Casino operated by the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community in Shakopee, Minnesota is named after Chief Shakopee III.
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."
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]
Chief Shakopee III in 1864. Shakopee III (1811 – 11 November 1865) was a Mdewakanton Dakota chief who was involved at the start of the Dakota War of 1862.Born Eatoka, which means "Another Language," he became known as Shakpedan or Little Six after the death of his father in 1860.
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. [2]
Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community: Sioux: Scott: 779 Upper Sioux Indian Reservation: Sioux: Yellow Medicine: 120 White Earth Indian Reservation: Ojibwe: