Wapahasha I, born about 1718, became the foremost hero in the national history of the Mdewakanton and a leading figure among the Dakota of eastern Minnesota. He traveled to Montreal and offered his life to the British governor in place of a murderer so the Dakota would be granted the gun trade, later distinguished himself as a British general during the American Revolutionary War, and in the late 1790s founded the Kiyuksa band and a village on the Upper Iowa River. His sister married the voyageur Joseph Roque, and their son Augustin became an early settler of Rocque's Landing, later known as Wabasha. Wapahasha I died of throat cancer in 1806. Wapahasha II, also called La Feuille, was born in the 1760s and served from the late 1790s through 1836 as a highly skilled diplomatic leader of the Dakota Nation. Recognized by Americans as the first chief of his tribe, he dealt with Spanish, American, and British officials, aided Tecumthe after the Louisiana Purchase in forming a British-Indian confederacy for the War of 1812, established his village below the bluff called Wapasha's Cap at present-day Winona, signed several treaties, and was continually involved in relations with the Ojibway, Ho-Chunk, and Sac and Fox. He died of smallpox in 1836, and in 1843 settlers at Rocque's Landing renamed their town Wabasha in his honor. Wapahasha III, also called Tatepsin, was born about 1812 and emerged as a tribal leader in the 1840s. Initially defiant toward government control, he gradually accepted white religion and custom, signed the 1851 and 1858 land cession treaties that created the southern half of Minnesota, was converted to Christianity under the influence of Episcopal Bishop Henry B. Whipple at the Dakota Reserve on the Minnesota River, opposed the Dakota War of 1862, and then endured removal to Crow Creek in Dakota Territory, where 300 people died from lack of food and medical care. He later helped his people rebuild at the Niobrara, or Santee, Reserve in Nebraska despite years of insecure land tenure, drought, grasshoppers, and smallpox, and he died in 1876.