Wapasha III



Wapasha (III) (wáȟpe šá) (ca. 1816–1876) was a Mdewakanton (Dakota Sioux) chief, also known as Joseph Wapasha.

Chief Wa-pa-sha, (The Standard, or “Red Leaf,”) signed the 1851 and 1858 treaties that ceded the southern half of what is now the state of Minnesota to the USA. These land sales began the removal of his band to the reservation on the Minnesota River, then removal from Minnesota to Crow Creek Reservation in Dakota Territory, then lastly to the Santee Reservation in Nebraska, where the last chief Wabasha died.