Shakopee II

"[1] He was described by Reverend Samuel W. Pond of the First Presbyterian Church of Shakopee as "a man of marked ability in council and one of the ablest and most effective orators in the whole Dakota Nation.

[4] Shakopee promised that children from his village would attend the school, and that Pond would be provided with pasture and fuel.

Pond finally consented and built a house at what he called "Prairieville" in 1847, and lived there until he died in 1891.

Although Pond held "Shakpay" in high regard for his oratorical skills, he also described as an enigmatic man who was "at the same time admired and despised by all who knew him.

At times he seemed magnanimous, and some of his speeches contained sage counsel and noble sentiments; but falsehood and truth were both alike to him, and he was often detected in the commission of petty thefts...[3]At the same time, Samuel Pond suggested that Chief Shakopee II could have prevented the initial attacks in the Dakota uprising of 1862, if he had been alive,[3] a view that was also expressed separately by Chief Big Eagle.