Kaposia or Kapozha was a seasonal and migratory Dakota settlement, also known as "Little Crow's village," once located on the east side of the Mississippi River in present-day Saint Paul, Minnesota.

The Kaposia band of Mdewakanton Dakota was established in the late 18th century and led by a succession of chiefs known as Little Crow or "Petit Corbeau.

[3] On May 1, 1767, British explorer Jonathan Carver attended an "annual council" of eight bands of Dakota, "possibly at or near a village that would become Kaposia,"[4] on the eastern side of the river two miles south of Wakan Tipi in St.

[3] American explorer Lieutenant Zebulon Pike visited Kaposia during his 1805–1806 expedition to locate the source of the Mississippi River.

[citation needed] In 1851, 23-year-old artist Frank Blackwell Mayer, made a large number of sketches of life in Kaposia village.

[11] In Little Crow: Spokesman for the Sioux, historian Gary Clayton Anderson writes:Coincidentally, Stanley was just then finishing a landscape of Kaposia, complete with bark and hide lodges, women dressing.

But Stanley had also completed a painting of the burial ground near Kaposia, and this picture produced in the chief a more sullen mood.

He looked for a long time at the depiction of the dead being mounted on scaffolds, then raised his hands above his head, clasped them, and stalked out of the room.