Wowinape

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Wowinape, 1864Born in 1846, Wowinape, also known as Thomas Wakeman, was the son of Taoyateduta, or Little Crow. A Mdewakanton Dakota, he lived with his family on the Lower Sioux Reservation near Redwood Falls, Minnesota. Wowinape fled with his father after the U.S.-Dakota War but traveled back to southwest Minnesota in 1863, where his father was murdered while they picked berries. Wowinape escaped again, but was caught and persecuted at Davenport prison in Iowa. After being pardoned, he settled in what is now Flandreau, South Dakota and helped to organize the first Native-run YMCA.  He died of tuberculosis in 1886 in Redwood Falls, Minnesota.  

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