# Chief Whitecap

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{{Short description|Dakota chief}}
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[[File:TheFoundersStatue.jpg|thumb|right|Statue of Chief Whitecap (standing) and John Neilson Lake (seated) in [River Landing](/source/River_Landing), Saskatoon]]
'''Chief Whitecap''' ([fl.](/source/Floruit) 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](/source/Dakota_people) chief from the area now known as [Whitecap Dakota Reserve](/source/Whitecap_Dakota_First_Nation).<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](/source/John_Neilson_Lake) of the Temperance Colonization Society of Toronto arrived in what is now [Saskatoon](/source/Saskatoon) in 1882 to survey the land. Whitecap advised that Lake begin the settlement on the east bank of the [South Saskatchewan River](/source/South_Saskatchewan_River), which would later become [Nutana](/source/Nutana%2C_Saskatoon).<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](/source/North-West_Rebellion), and was tried for treason after [Louis Riel's](/source/Louis_Riel) 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
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