While we know our northern friends may not feel it, in the South, Spring is
here. So we thought we'd share a few of our gardening sites appropriate
for this time of the year. Along with gardening, there's grilling, and getting
ready to diet so that you can fit back into that bathing suit this summer!
Long in 1822 (Exped. St Peter's R., 380, 1824) estimated
the various bands as follows:
Keoxa ( hiyuksa), 400;
Eanbosandata (Khemnichan), 100;
Kapozha, 300;
Oanoska (Ohanhanska), 200;
Tetankatane (Tintaotonwe), 150;
Taoapa, 3W0;
Weakaote (Khenlnichan), 50.
According to the Census of 1890 there were 869
Mdewakanton and Wahpekute on Santee reservation, Nebr., and 292 at
Flandreau, S. Dak. The report for 1905 mentions as not under an agent 100
at Birch Cooley and 779 elsewhere in Minnesota.
The recognized divisions are as follows:
(1) Kiyuksa,
(2) Ohanhanska,
(3) Tacanhpisapa,
(4) Anoginajin,
(5) Tintaotonwe, and
(6) Oyateshicha, belonging to the Wakpaatonwedan division, which seems to
have constituted the whole tribe in early times
(7) Khemnichan,
(8) Kapozha,
(9) Magayuteshni,
(10) Mahpiyamaza,
(11) Mahpiyawichasta,
(12) Kheyataotonwe, and
(13) Taoapa, constituting the Matantonwan division, which early French
writers spoke of as a powerful tribe associated with but not a part of the
Mdewakanton.
The following subdivisions have not been
identified:
Town band Indians,
Mankato,
Nasiampaa and
Upper Medawakanton.
