Mazakutemani, who was also known as He Who Shoots as He Walks or as Little Paul, was educated at Rev. Williamson’s mission school in 1835, where he learned to read and write the Dakota language. He converted to Christianity, practiced European-American-style farming, and helped organize the Hazelwood Republic, a self-governing body of Dakota farmers at Rev. Stephen Rigg’s mission on the Yellow Medicine (Upper Sioux) Reservation. During the 1862 war, Mazakutemani helped organize the "Peace Party" and served as a spokesman for Dakota who opposed the war. After the war he served as a scout during the Punitive Expeditions into the Dakota Territory.
Anderson, Gary Clayton and Alan R. Woolworth, eds., Through Dakota Eyes: Narrative Accounts of the Minnesota Indian War of 1862. Saint Paul, MN: Minnesota Historical Society Press (1988), 197.
Mazakutemani, Paul. "Narrative of Paul Mazakootemane," Minnesota Historical Collections 3 (1880), 82-90.
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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, MN: Minnesota Historical Society Press (1988), 197.
Mazakutemani, Paul. "Narrative of Paul Mazakootemane," Minnesota Historical Collections 3 (1880), 82-90.