Ishtakhaba a.k.a. Chief Sleepy Eye, was a Native American

Native Americans in the United States

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 chief of the Sisseton Sioux tribe. He was chief from sometime between 1822 and 1825 until his death in 1860. According to Warren Upham

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, "'Sleepy Eyes died in Roberts County, South Dakota

Roberts County, South Dakota

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, but many years after his death his remains were disinterred and removed to Sleepy Eye, Minnesota

Sleepy Eye, Minnesota

As of the census of 2000, there were 3,515 people, 1,479 households, and 942 families residing in the city. The population density was 2,099.9 people per square mile . There were 1,591 housing units at an average density of 950.5 per square mile...

, where they were buried under a monument erected by the citizens.'" The monument, close to the railway station, bears this inscription beneath the portrait of the chief in bas-relief sculpture: 'Ish-tak-ha-ba, Sleepy Eye, Always a Friend of the Whites. Died 1860.'"

Ishtabkhaba tried to promote peace with whites in and around the state of Minnesota

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. He was a signer of at least four treaties with the United States

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 government, and met with President James Monroe

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 in Washington, D.C.

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in 1824.

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