Thomas Wakeman

[1] As of 2000, Sioux YMCAs, under the leadership of a Lakota Board of Directors, operate programs serving families and youth on the 4,500-square-mile (12,000 km2) Cheyenne River Indian Reservation.

[2] Chief Little Crow (Sioux: Thaóyate Dúta; English: His Red Nation) of the Dakota had a son named Wowinape (Sioux: Wówinaphe; English: Place of Refuge) born in 1846.

Wowinape, who had fled back to Devil's Lake, was later captured, tried and sentenced to hang.

They had four sons and two daughters: Solomon, Ruth, John, Jesse, Ida, and Alex Wakeman.

Wakeman contracted tuberculosis and died at Redwood Falls, Minnesota on January 13, 1886.