Career
Over the years, 66 Sioux associations have been founded with over 1000 members. As of 2000, the Sioux The Young Men's Christian Association, under the leadership of a Lakota Board of Directors, operate programs serving families and youth on the 4,500-square-mile (12,000 km2) Cheyenne River Indian Reservation. Chief Little Crow (Sioux: Thaóyate Dúta.
English: His Red Nation) of the Sioux had a son named Wawinape (Sioux: Wówinaphe English: Place of Refuge) in 1846.
Little Crow and Wawinape survived the Dakota War of 1862. They lived at Devil"s Lake in Dakota territory.
On June 10, 1863, they left to make a raid into Minnesota to get horses for their family. A settler named Nathan Lamson saw them and shot and killed Little Crow.
He was later captured, tried and sentenced to hang.
He was sent to a prison camp in Davenport, Iowa. He was pardoned in 1865 and settled in Dakota Territory. Wakeman married Judith Minnetonka in January 1874.
In 1885, it was recognized by the national Young Men’s Christian Association and its name was changed to Sioux Young Men"s Christian Association.
Wakeman contracted tuberculosis and died at Redwood Falls, Minnesota on January 13, 1886.
