Sarah F. Wakefield

[3] The family was amongst the first settlers of Big Earth City and Dr. Wakefield worked as a physician at Yellow Medicine, an Upper Sioux Agency.

[3] Having moved in 1861, they lived in a well-appointed house, on a bluff, next to the Agency building, at the confluence of the Yellow Medicine and Minnesota Rivers.

[4] Wakefield was described as: Gregarious to strangers, prone to anxiety, and fiercely protective of her two young children, she was plain-looking and stout enough that the Dakota called her Tanka-Winohinca Waste, meaning "large good woman.

[6] Chaska (We-Chank-Wash-ta-don-pee), a Dakota man, held Wakefield and her children with his family during the six-week battle.

During a trial after the war, Wakefield testified that Chaska was her protector, which played a part in his sentence being commuted.