Wakute

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Wakute at Fort Snelling, 1862Wakute (Wacouta) was a Mdewakanton chief who opposed the war. He was imprisoned in the aftermath at Fort Snelling and then Mankato.

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Anderson, Gary Clayton and Alan R. Woolworth, eds. Through Dakota Eyes: Narrative Accounts of the Minnesota Indian War of 1862. Saint Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1988.

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Anderson, Gary Clayton and Alan R. Woolworth, eds. Through Dakota Eyes: Narrative Accounts of the Minnesota Indian War of 1862. Saint Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1988.

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