Cloud Man
Cloud Man | |
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Maḣpiya Wic̣aṡṭa | |
| Mdewakanton Dakota chief | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | c. 1780 Near Mendota, Minnesota |
| Died | c. 1863 Dakota concentration camp at Fort Snelling, Pike Island, Minnesota |
| Spouse | Canpadutawin (Red Cherry Woman) (1810) |
| Relations | Red Bird (brother in law) |
| Children | Wakaninajinwin (Stands Sacred Woman) (daughter)
Inażiŋwiŋ (The Day Sets) (daughter) Nancy Eastman (Wakantankawin, Great Spirit Woman) (granddaughter) Mary Eastman Faribault (Tipiwakanwin) (great-granddaughter) Lillian Evelyn Beane (Moore) (great-great-granddaughter) |
Cloud Man (Dakota: Maḣpiya Wic̣aṡṭa; 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. 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.