. Bulletin. Ethnology. ^92 WAHPETON [b. a. e. hunt on the St. Peter's [Minnesota r.], also on the Mississippi, up Rum r., and sometimes follow the buffalo on the ; They gradually moved up Minnesota r., so that in 1849 they lived n. and w. of the Wahpekute, their villages extend- ing far upstream toward its source. They had one of their most important villages in the vicinity of Lac qui Parle. Here missionaries established themselves as early as 1835, at which date the tribe numbered about 1,500 persons. Accord- ing to Sibley (Minn. Hist. Coll., iii, 250, 1880) the lower Wahpeton we
. Bulletin. Ethnology. ^92 WAHPETON [b. a. e. hunt on the St. Peter's [Minnesota r.], also on the Mississippi, up Rum r., and sometimes follow the buffalo on the ; They gradually moved up Minnesota r., so that in 1849 they lived n. and w. of the Wahpekute, their villages extend- ing far upstream toward its source. They had one of their most important villages in the vicinity of Lac qui Parle. Here missionaries established themselves as early as 1835, at which date the tribe numbered about 1,500 persons. Accord- ing to Sibley (Minn. Hist. Coll., iii, 250, 1880) the lower Wahpeton were found on Minnesota r., not far from Belle- plaine; the upper Wahpeton villages were on the shores of Lac qui Parle. They were ultimately gathered with the Sisseton on L. Traverse res. The esti-. OTHER DAY-—WAHPETON mates of population vary from 900 to 1,500. In 1909 the Sisseton and AVahpe- ton together, under the Sisseton agency, S. Dak., were reported as numbering 1,936. They were participants in the Minnesota outbreak and massacre of 1862. According to Long (Exped. St. Peter's R., I, 367, 1824) these Indians were good-looking and straight; none were large, nor were any remarkable for the synnnetry of their forms. They were, for the greater part, destitute of clothing, except the breechcloth, though some of the young men were dressed with care and ostentation. "They wore looking-glasses suspended from their garments. Others had papers of pins, purchased from the traders, as ornaments. We observed that one, who appeared to be a man of some note among them, had a live sparrow hawk on his head, by way of distinction; this man wore also a buffalo robe, on which 8 bear tracks were painted. . The squaws we saw had no ornament, nor did they seem to value themselves upon their personal appearance. . Both males and females have small feet and hands. . The dress of the women consisted of a long wrapper, with short sleeves, of dark calico; this covered them from the shoulders
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