Marpiya te najin

Marpiya te najin
1 January 1909, Walker, T. B. and the Press of Hahn & Harmon Co.; courtesy of HathiTrust. From a descriptive catalogue with reproductions of life-size bust portraits. Originally exhibited in the Minnesota pioneers' portrait galleries on the State Fairgrounds in 1909.
Born
unknown
Died26 December 1862
Mankato, Minnesota, United States
Other namesMarpiya Okinajin, He-who-lives-in-the-Clouds, Cut-Nose

Marpiya te najin, or Marpiya Okinajin, literally "He-who-stands-in-the-Clouds", was a Dakota warrior noted for being one of the "38+2" Dakota warriors executed in Mankato, Minnesota by the order of U.S. Army Colonel Henry Hastings Sibley for their resistance of U.S. Military incursions upon Dakota land in the Dakota War of 1862, one of the American Indian Wars carried out in the American pursuit of the political-cultural philosophy Manifest Destiny. Marpiya te najin has also historically been known improperly by the mistranslated name Cut-Nose, which is considered inappropriate by many members of the Dakota people.

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