Chief Whitecap

Chief Wapahaska (fl.

1880s) (Dakota: Wápaha Ská),[1] also known as Chief Whitecap and Bonnet Blanc,[2] was a Dakota chief from the area now known as Whitecap Dakota Reserve.

[3] John Lake of the Temperance Colonization Society of Toronto arrived in what is now Saskatoon in 1882 to survey the land.

Whitecap advised that Lake begin the settlement on the east bank of the South Saskatchewan River, which would later become Nutana.

[4] Whitecap was a participant in the North-West Rebellion, and was tried for treason after Louis Riel's surrender.