LaChapelle & Native blood
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Re: LaChapelle & Native blood
| DavidEG231 (View posts) | Posted: 20 Apr 2009 4:38AM GMT |
Classification: Query
Surnames: LaChapelle, LaPointe
to Dano1759:
I know this is a much delayed reply to your inquiry, but yes, there is definitely Native American blood in at least some of the LaChapelle line, that starting with Pierre LaPointe's daughter Pelagie LaPointe, whose mother was a sister of Chief Wabasha (II)of the Mdewakanton Dakota tribe (this is the tribe which runs the Mystic Lake Casino near Minneapolis, MN). Pierre was one of the first French Canadian settlers in Prairie du Chien, WI. Pelagie married Antoine LaChapelle, this is where the native blood enters this particular LaChapelle family.
Eventually many of the LaChapelle family moved to Minnesota, in Wabasha and Little Falls. One of Pelagie's sons, Hercules, lived in the Wabasha area (see 1855 & 1860 census) and received payment from the US government for services in the army during the Sioux Uprising in 1862 and continuing in the army during the Civil War. His surviving children received money from the US government in 1891 as part of the "scouts and soldiers payroll" which was given to soldiers, or their suriving kin, if the soldier was at least part-blood member of one of only 4 Dakota clans: Sisseton, Wahpeton, Mdewakanton, or Wapakoota.
Please reply if you would like more information. I am not sure if this is part of the line of LaChapelle's you are investigating.
Regards,
Dave
I know this is a much delayed reply to your inquiry, but yes, there is definitely Native American blood in at least some of the LaChapelle line, that starting with Pierre LaPointe's daughter Pelagie LaPointe, whose mother was a sister of Chief Wabasha (II)of the Mdewakanton Dakota tribe (this is the tribe which runs the Mystic Lake Casino near Minneapolis, MN). Pierre was one of the first French Canadian settlers in Prairie du Chien, WI. Pelagie married Antoine LaChapelle, this is where the native blood enters this particular LaChapelle family.
Eventually many of the LaChapelle family moved to Minnesota, in Wabasha and Little Falls. One of Pelagie's sons, Hercules, lived in the Wabasha area (see 1855 & 1860 census) and received payment from the US government for services in the army during the Sioux Uprising in 1862 and continuing in the army during the Civil War. His surviving children received money from the US government in 1891 as part of the "scouts and soldiers payroll" which was given to soldiers, or their suriving kin, if the soldier was at least part-blood member of one of only 4 Dakota clans: Sisseton, Wahpeton, Mdewakanton, or Wapakoota.
Please reply if you would like more information. I am not sure if this is part of the line of LaChapelle's you are investigating.
Regards,
Dave