Editing Wabasha, Minnesota (section)

==Name==
Wabasha is named after the [[Mdewakanton]] [[Dakota people|Dakota]] mixed-blood (with [[Anishinaabe]]) chiefs '''Wapi-sha''', or '''red leaf''' (''wáȟpe šá'' - leaf red), [[Wapasha I|father]] (1718–1806), [[Wapasha II|son]] (1768–1855), and [[Wabasha III|grandson]] (±1816–1876) of the same name. The second, [[Wapasha II|Wabishaw the son]], signed the 1830 USA treaty with the "Confederated Tribes of the Sacs and Foxes; the Medawah-Kanton, Wahpacoota, Wahpeton and Sissetong Bands or Tribes of Sioux; the Omahas, Ioways, Ottoes and Missourias" in [[Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin|Prairie du Chien]].<ref>1830 US treaty with Native Americans on the upper Mississippi at [[Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin|Prairie du Chien]] http://digital.library.okstate.edu/kappler/Vol2/treaties/sau0305.htm</ref> The grandson, Wabasha III (±1816–1876), signed the 1851<ref>1851 USA Treaty with the Sioux—Mdewakanton and Wahpakoota Bands 1851 Chief Wa-pa-sha, (The Standard, or “Red Leaf,”) http://digital.library.okstate.edu/kappler/Vol2/treaties/sio0591.htm</ref> and 1858<ref>USA Treaty with the Sioux, 1858 — Mendawakanton and Wahpahoota Bands, ''Wa-bash-aw, his x mark.'' http://digital.library.okstate.edu/kappler/Vol2/treaties/sio0781.htm</ref> treaties that ceded the southern half of what is now the state of [[Minnesota]] to the United States, beginning the removal of his band to the [[Minnesota River]], then removal from Minnesota to [[Crow Creek Reservation]] in Dakota Territory, then to the [[Santee Sioux Reservation|Santee Reservation]] in [[Nebraska]], where the last chief Wabasha died.