Cloud Man

Cloud Man
Maḣpiya Wic̣aṡṭa
Mdewakanton Dakota chief
Personal details
Bornc. 1780[1]
Near Mendota, Minnesota
Diedc. 1863[1]
Dakota concentration camp at Fort Snelling, Pike Island, Minnesota[1]
SpouseCanpadutawin (Red Cherry Woman) (1810)[2]
RelationsRed Bird (brother in law)[3]
ChildrenWakaninajinwin (Stands Sacred Woman) (daughter)[2]

Inażiŋwiŋ (The Day Sets) (daughter)[4]

Nancy Eastman (Wakantankawin, Great Spirit Woman) (granddaughter)[2]

Mary Eastman Faribault (Tipiwakanwin) (great-granddaughter)[2]

Lillian Evelyn Beane (Moore) (great-great-granddaughter)[2][5]

Cloud Man (Dakota: Maḣpiya Wic̣aṡṭa;[a] c. 1780 – c. 1863) was a Dakota chief. The child of French and Mdewakanton parents, he founded the agricultural community Ḣeyate Otuŋwe on the shores of Bde Maka Ska in 1829 after being trapped in a snowstorm for three days. The village was seen by white settlers as a progressive step towards assimilation, yet members of the community maintained a distinctly Dakota way of life.[8] The community was abandoned in 1839 and Cloud Man's band moved along the Minnesota River to join the Hazelwood Republic.

Cloud Man died during internment at the concentration camp at Fort Snelling on Pike Island, which held nearly 1,700 eastern Dakota and Ho-Chunk non-combatants, mainly women and children, after the U.S.–Dakota War of 1862.[9][1]

  1. ^ a b c d Hughes 1969, p. 50.
  2. ^ a b c d e Hyman 2012, 4: "Mary Faribault, whose Dakota name was Tipiwakanwin, Sacred Lodge Woman, would have learned to work with hides and decorate the moccasins from her mother, Wakantankawin, Great Spirit Woman, Nancy Eastman, her grandmother Wakaninajinwin, Stands Sacred Woman, and her great-grandmother, Canpadutawin, Red Cherry Woman, who married Mahpiya Wicasta, Cloud Man, in 1810. In making these moccasins, Mary honored the new baby. She also honored the baby's mother, Grace Eastman Moore, and the baby's grandmother, Mary Jane Faribault Eastman, wife of Mary's brother John."
  3. ^ Hughes 1969, p. 41.
  4. ^ Westerman & White 2012, Chapter Three: Dakota Landscape in the Ninteenth Century.
  5. ^ Lillian E Beane Obituary, Skroch Funeral Home: "Lillian Evelyn Beane, age 101, passed away on April 12, 2013, at Avera Flandreau Hospital. The daughter of Oliver Moore and Grace Eastman Moore, Lillian was born on August 27th, 1911 in her grandfather Rev. John Eastman's home at Agency Village on the Sisseton Reservation, South Dakota."
  6. ^ a b Hughes 1969, p. 34.
  7. ^ Pond 2002, p. 10.
  8. ^ Beane 2012, p. 105.
  9. ^ The US-Dakota War of 1862, Historic Fort Snelling, MNHS


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