The Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate of the Lake Traverse Reservation, formerly Sisseton-Wahpeton Sioux Tribe/Dakota Nation, is a federally recognized tribe comprising two bands and two subdivisions of the Isanti or Santee Dakota people. They are on the Lake Traverse Reservation in northeast South Dakota.
Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate
Chief Mazasa (Red Iron), c. 1860.
Woodrow Keeble (1917–1984), Medal of Honor recipient
The Dakota are a Native American tribe and First Nations band government in North America. They compose two of the three main subcultures of the Sioux people, and are typically divided into the Eastern Dakota and the Western Dakota.
Charles Alex Eastman (1858–1939), physician, author, and co-founder of the Boy Scouts of America
Zitkala-Sa (1876–1938), Yankton author, photographed by Joseph Keiley