Wapkawazioju

Wapkawazioju lies beside the Mississippi near Lake Pepin, where Dakota communities lived along the river and its islands. A Dakota village stood near the later town of Red Wing, above the lake. In September 1805 Zebulon Pike stopped there while travelling upriver and recorded the settlement. Farther upstream, Prairie Island lies between Mississippi channels and has long been part of Mdewakanton Dakota country.