Chief Whitecap

{{Short description|Dakota chief}} {{Use Canadian English|date=September 2025}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2025}} [[File:TheFoundersStatue.jpg|thumb|right|Statue of Chief Whitecap (standing) and John Neilson Lake (seated) in River Landing, Saskatoon]] '''Chief Whitecap''' (fl. 1880s) ({{langx|dak|Wápaha Ská}}),<ref>[https://dakotalessons.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Chief-Whitecap-.pdf https://dakotalessons.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Chief-Whitecap-.pdf]</ref> also known as '''Chief Wapahaska''' and {{langr|fr|Bonnet Blanc}},<ref>{{Cite web |title=Riel Rebellion - 1885 |url=https://www.porthopehistory.com/northwest/ |access-date=2024-12-30 |website=www.porthopehistory.com}}</ref> was a Dakota chief from the area now known as Whitecap Dakota Reserve.<ref>{{cite web |url= https://esask.uregina.ca/entry/whitecap_dakota_first_nation.jsp|title= Whitecap Dakota First Nation|last= Thompson|first= Christian|website= www.esask.uregina.ca|publisher= The Encyclopedia of Saskatchewan|access-date= 21 March 2021}}</ref>

==Founding of Saskatoon== John Lake of the Temperance Colonization Society of Toronto arrived in what is now Saskatoon in 1882 to survey the land. Whitecap advised that Lake begin the settlement on the east bank of the South Saskatchewan River, which would later become Nutana.<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/saskatoon|title= Saskatoon|last= Sarjeant|first= A. Margaret|last2= Sarjeant|first2= William A.S.|last3= Kerr|first3= Don|date= 14 November 2012|website= www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca|publisher= The Canadian Encyclopedia|access-date= 21 March 2021}}</ref>

==Later life== Whitecap was a participant in the North-West Rebellion, and was tried for treason after Louis Riel's surrender. He was later found not guilty.<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/north-west-rebellion|title= North-West Rebellion|last= Beal|first= Bob|last2= Macleod|first2= Rod|date= 7 February 2006|website= www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca|publisher= The Canadian Encyclopedia|access-date= 21 March 2021}}</ref>

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Category:Dakota people Category:19th-century First Nations people Category:First Nations history in Canada Category:People of the North-West Rebellion Category:Indigenous leaders in Saskatchewan Category:Year of birth unknown Category:Year of death unknown