The First Mahkato Memorial Wacipi

In 1972, Dakota people and members of the Mankato YMCA planned the first Mahkato Wacipi to remember the thirty-eight Dakota executed in Mankato in 1862 and to create a spirit of reconciliation between the people of Mankato and the Dakota people. Those involved were Amos and Ione Owen, Wallace and Gertrude Wells, Sr., David Larsen, Sr., Norman and Edith Crooks, Amos and Rosemma Crooks, and Hereditary Chief Ernest and Vernell Wabasha, with co-founders Bud Lawrence and Jim Buckley, Sr. Amos Owen expressed the hope that this effort could be shared with the rest of the world and help people live together as brothers.

Mankato, Minnesota · United States