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Ṡakpe I (1750-1827)
Tamaha Standing Moose (ca. 1776-1864)
Hazen Mooers (1789-1857)
Catherine Stevens Frederick (1792-1883)
Maḣpiya-ḣota Wiŋ (1793-1849)
Mary Polly Schroeder Weiser (1793-1879)
Ṡakpe II (1794-1857)
Valentin Bartholomäus Reis (1795-1874)
Peter Pettee Clark Atwood (1796-1872)
Sophronia Sophia Fannie Morse Brown (1797-1862)
John Shoto (1798-1899)
Philena Scott Newcomb (1798-1888)
James Thompson (ca. 1799-1884)
Robert M. Kennedy (1799-1889)
Hanora Power O’Connor O’Brien (1800-1869)
Major Richard G. Murphy (1801-1875)
Na-he-no-Wenah Spirit of the Moon Mary Keeiyah Prescott (ca. 1802-1867)
Katherina Freihaut Reis (1802-1867)
Háza Íŋyaŋka Wiŋ Runs Bringing Huckleberries Old Betsey (ca. 1803-1886)
John Sommerville (1803-1889)
Thomas A. Holmes (1804-1888)
Melinda Perry Apgar (1806-1874)
Rev. Samuel Pond (1808-1891)
Jane Dillard Allen (1809-1885)
Thaóyate Dúta Little Crow (1810 – 1863)
Ursula Kennedy Holmes (1811-1841)
Ṡakpedaŋ (1811-1865)
Margaretha Mahlberg Klinkhammer (1812-1883)
Private Andrew Baldwin (1813-aft. 1900)
Elizabeth Clarke Mawney Cole (1813-1891)
Martha Tamazawiŋ Toboskas War Eagle Wamadeduda Otherday (ca. 1815-1911)
Oliver Faribault (1815-1850)
Cordelia Eggleston Pond (1815-1852)
Fr. Augustin Ravoux (1815-1906)
David-Frederic Faribault Sr. (1816-1887)
Wakan Yaŋke Wiŋ (ca. 1817-1880)
Mazasnawiŋ Iron Woman Rosalie Freniere Mooers (1817-1884)
Marpiyawecasta Mary Wabashaw Hapah Cloudman Thompson (1817-1884)
Aksel Axel Jørgensen (1818-1898)
Alice Hinds Sencerbox (1818-1865)
Catharina Lyons Mullen (1818-1865)
Moses Starr Titus (1819-1878)
Hinyajice-duta-wiŋ Soft Scarlet Down of a Swan Susan Frénière Brown (1819-1904)
Johann John Paul (1819-1909)
Joannes Josephis Antonius Anthony Entrup (1821-1876)
George Henry Vierling (1821-1901)
Kahoton Make Noise by Striking John Mooers (ca. 1822-1899)
Peter Jost Yost (1822–1895)
Henry H. Spencer (1822-1873)
Dr. John Luman Wakefield (1823-1874)
Benjamin Emerson Shumway (1823-1909)
Dr. Elizabeth Lizette Schmitz Entrup (1823-1895)
Private Hiram Herman Matt Cooley (1823-1908)
James Griffin (ca. 1824-1891)
Dennis O’Loughlin (1824-1864)
Margaretha Bridget Haley O’Loughlin (1824-1886)
John O’Connor (ca. 1825-1878)
Mary Brown Griffin (ca. 1825-1882)
Timothy Canty (ca. 1825-1885)
Margaret O’Keefe Canty (1825-1900)
Thomas Jefferson Galbraith (1825-1909)
Peter Rudolph Geyermann (1825-1911)
Ellen O’Brien Gellenbeck (1825-1916)
James Beach Wakefield (1825-1910)
Jane Lamont Titus (1827-1899)
Spier Spencer (1827-1907)
Francis Xavier Hirscher (1827-1909)
David L. Fuller (1828-1856)
Ety-shah Red Face William Bill Quinn (1828-1906)
Jabez William Flavel (1828-1896)
Daniel Milton Storer (1828-1905)
Lucy Prescott Pettijohn (1828-1910)
Josiah Cooper (1828-1905)
Harriet Richards Woodbury Holmes (1828-1915)
Martha Bale Youatt (1829-1890)
Sarah Florence Brown Wakefield Henderson (1829-1899)
Johanna O’Brien Spearman (ca. 1830-1890)
Witch-e-aim (ca. 1830-1845)
Joseph Godfrey (1830-1909)
Jacob Ries (1830-1911)
Margaretha Flammang Marschall (1830-1918)
Lieutenant Frank M. McGrade (1830-1876)
William Frank Weiser (1830-1919)
Anna Josephine Makahdegawin Allen Bluestone (1830-1910)
Barbara Hümpfer Huempfer Schott (1831-1893)
John Hamilton Mackenzie (1831-1920)
Harriet Frederick Cooper (1831-1929)
Hapstiŋna Black Flute Lucy Otherday (ca. 1832-1920)
Mary Julia Ehman Lies (1832-1869)
Elizabeth Hermes Koeper (1832 1895)
Dr. Josiah Schroeder Weiser (1832-1863)
Ellen Bridget Rohen Galvin (1832-1896)
Joseph Farr (1832-1910)
Jannette Elizabeth Sykes DeCamp Sweet (1833-1920)
Ellen Helen Iverson Stevenson Barclay (1834-1907)
Catherine Neafsey O’Connor (ca. 1834-1897)
Joel Schroeder Weiser (1834-1925)
Lucy Jane Allen (1834-1853)
Rose Ann Spencer Spencer (1834-1913)
Omittee Fletcher Storer (1835-1909)
Amelia Berreau Geyermann (1835-1907)
Mahala Conklin Shumway (1835-1909)
Elizabeth Gerdesmeier Lenzmeier (1835-1909)
Louisa Cleaver Weiser (1835-1909)
Mahkahta-Heiya-Wiŋ Mary Crabby Crooks (1836-1899)
Mary Anne Geyermann Weydert (1836-1924)
Wowaka Wa-Pa-Let Winona Nancy McClure Faribault Huggan (ca. 1836-1927)
Vitiline Lebeau Boan (1836-1916)
Henrietta B. Allen Koons (1838-1865)
Private Nathaniel Nat Kline (1838-1926)
Snásna Tinkling Maggie Good Thunder Brass (ca. 1839-1908)
Helen M. Taisey Holmes (ca. 1839-1889)
Andrew Ferdinand Kreger (1839-1916)
William Wallace Garig (1839-1908)
Katherina Mechtel Grommesch (1839-1872)
Wilhelmina Minnie Lohiheide Enters Ahlswede (1839-1919)
Joseph Graham (1840-1900)
Patrick Gorham (1840-1863)
Eliza Ella Victoria Hunt Weiser Stubbs (1840-1897)
Hiram Adam Flecken (1840-1931)
Ellen Marie Oleson Jørgensen (ca. 1840-1910)
Priscilla Jane Sr. Adelaide Elder (1840-1862)
Margaretha Wolf Hennen (1841-1909)
James B. Heth, Jr. (1841-1893)
Anna Kubatová Kubat Deutsch (1841-1931)
Right Reverend Monsignor Alois Plut (1841-1917)
Private Adam Geiß Geis (1841-1933)
George Buchanan Clarke (1841-1887)
Jennette Janet Clarissa Pond (1842-1862)
Paul Joseph Fischer (1842-1938)
Emsley Jackson Hamilton (1842-1922)
Milo B. Apgar (1844-1896)
Corporal Seymour Pope (1845-1907)
Mary Ann Moormann Hutter Kruger (1845-1916)
Pelagie Eliza Faribault Manaige (1845-1937)
Barbara Brück Brueck Geiß Geis (1845-1934)
Private Timothy John Duffy (1846-1917)
John Tudantoiciya Bluestone (1835–1904)
Private Charles August Manaige (1847-1938)
Lenora Elizabeth Walter Southworth (1847-1925)
Elnathan Judson Pond (1847-1943)
Julianna Boppre Fischer (1847-1910)
Private Francis Frank McCoy (1847-1906)
Herman Heinrich Heller (1848-1903)
Samuel (1848-1928) and Andrew Beisang (1851-1928)
Isabel Davis Higbee (1849-1915)
Theodore Weiland (1849-1931)
Anpetutokeca James Jim Redbird Otherday (ca. 1849-1930)
Julie Hankey Unze (1850-1883)
Margaret Murphy Geis (1849-1893)
Bernard Sawatzki Sawatsky (1850-1905)
Maria Josepha Dieken Flecken (1850-1924)
Genevieve Perreault Luce (1850-1939)
George Robert DeMers (1851-1929)
U-ha-zy (1852)
Josephine Sand Grommesch Clemens (1854-1930)
Herman Frederick Schroeder (1854-1922)
Elizabeth Koeper Husman (1854-1943)
Major C.M. Wilson (in Sha K’ Pay, Minnesota Territory 1855)
Zillah Worsley Jackson (1855-1937)
Florence Courtney Melton (1857-1926)
Johannes Gensfleisch zur Laden zum Gutenberg (ca. 1400-1468; Relatives in Shakopee 1857-1910)
Kawestahsay (Battle of Shakopee 1858)
Now-we-ke-shick Noon Day (Battle of Shakopee 1858)
William Horace Bill Barnes (1858-1945)
Emilie Justine Anne Marie Weyd Dellow (1859-1916)
Clara Hirscher Hattenberger (1859-1931)
Martha Mae Dolly Koons Hewitt (1859-1886)
Margaret Sarazin Monnens (1860-1930)
Tom, a Cook (in Shakopee 1862)
Mother Gertrude Flynn O.S.B. (in Shakopee 1862-1880)
Katherina Siebenaler Marschall (1863-1902)
Orderly, First Minnesota Calvary Mounted Rangers (1863)
Joseph Allen (in Shakopee 1864)
Petrus Peter Sames (1865-1951)
Elizabeth Margaretha Sr. Bathildis Griese O.S.B. (1866-1950)
Frances Wessling Marschall (1867-1939)
Dr. Gustave Herman Seidler (1867-1913)
Mary Braun Abeln (1868-1916)
Joseph Daniel Fischer (1867-1929)
Anna Maria Wolf Busch (1870-1958)
Daisy Maria Cogswell Orr (1871-1904)
Anna Christine Kreger Fischer (1871-1951)
Wilfred Stevens (1874-1939)
Elizabeth K. Ries (1874-1949)
Charles Chuck Weldon (1874-1936)
Eleanor Gates (1875-1951)
Grace Faribault Manaige (1875-1965)
Minnie Josephine Otherday Weldon (1877-1959)
William Frank Billy Williams (1877-1963)
Anna Annabelle Pope Alexander (1878-1957)
Ida Dorothea Busse (1878-1963)
Alice Annie Briggs (in Shakopee 1880; died 1883)
Mary Hapstiŋna Otherday Canku (1880-1982)
Anna Thelka Sr. Alberta Bögemann (1880-1982)
Helen Elizabeth Lizzie Everling King (1881-1979)
Lillie Felix Leclaire (1881-1940)
Dr. Frederick Buck (1882-1978)
Ida Gertrude May Gjerdrum Buck (1883-1957)
Albert Leclaire (1885-1942)
Mary Frances O’Kelly (1886-1934)
Raymond Carrollous Charles Strunk (1887-1957)
William Francis Bill Marschall (1888-1969)
John William Blind Boone (in Shakopee 1890)
Clement Clem Felix Sr. (1891-1973)
A Chinese-American Man (1892)
Mary Elizabeth Scharf (1892-1894)
Samuel Ferdman (1893-1966)
Marie Mayme Keup Schroeder (1893-1973)
Grace Elizabeth Lehmann Sweeney (1894-1987)
Tikla Maria Marion Storm Weddel (1897-1922)
Charles Willis Speed Holman (1898-1957)
Charles Charley Joseph Theis (1898-1941)
Charlie Sam (in Shakopee 1901)
Bernardino Dean Taranto Toronto (1901-1941)
Theodore Joseph Ted “Lefty” Odenwald (1902-1965)
Charles Augustus Lindbergh (1902-1974)
Dagney Nöste Johannsen (1905-1985)
Dr. Bror Folke Pearson (1906-2004)
Joe Jenns (1907-1999)
Wilmer Bryan “Rip” Schroeder (1908-1986)
Marie Schneck Klavestad (1909-1983)
John Henry Seadlund (1910-1938)
Louise Bluestone Smith (1911-1996)
William Nestor Wermerskirchen (1912-1987)
Elizabeth Mary Abeln Schmiltz (1915-2005)
Elizabeth Abeln Schultz (1915-2005)
Ralph Gibson Schroeder (1915-1972)
Lena Strunk (Sundown Dancing 1915)
Antoinette Marie Ann Strehlow Carpenter (1916-2011)
Liu Kwong Kee (in Shakopee 1917)
Norman Melvan Crooks (1917-1989)
Ione Anne Krell Engel Theis (1917-2016)
Triplets (May 28, 1918)
Robert George Pat Thielen (1918-1991)
Sophia de Levie (1919-1943)
Gertrude Siebenaler Roepke (1919-2016)
Bert Schumacher (1922-1922)
Warren Ernest Stemmer (1922-2005)
Mary Joyce Pomije Stocker (1924-2016)
Rosemma Coursolle Crooks (1924-2003)
Pedro and Antonio Delgado (Migrants 1924-1932)
Sean Touch (1927-2022)
Kenneth Anton Theis (1927-1951)
Marjorie Marge Theresa Ries Henderson (1926-2010)
Joseph Bernard Schleper (1928-1998)
John Robert Fr. Jack Gilbert (1930-2001)
Elizabeth Betty Schmitt Dols (1930-2022)
African American Teenager (in Shakopee 1930)
Geraldine Mingo (1931-1948)
Maximus Guido “Max” Wermerskirchen (1931-1959)
Ruth Gardner (1933)
Geraldine Gerrie Ann McGovern Heiland (1933-2023)
Marilyn Rose Laddusaw Lang (1935-2016)
Dr. Jacob Jack Le Van Sach (1935-2013)
Manuel Lee Florez (1938-1952)
Gerald Alois Stang (1938-1940)
Margaret Ann Marge Sarazin Trebesch Elftmann (1939-2016)
Paula Morales Johnson 1940-2016
Crete Sandy Esmeralda Ngatoro Buesgens (1941-2023)
Richard John Schneider (1941-1967)
Takejiro Higa (Camp Savage 1942-1944)
Brenda Faith Welch Wilt (1942-2019)
Khim Khoan (1943-2023)
Thu Anh Tran (1944-2011)
Cadelaria los Ángeles Ruth Sarai Gonzalez (1944-2025)
Vu Thi Hieu (1945-2011)
David J. Strehlow (1945-1959)
Donna Miles Lane and the NWA Camp (1946-1955)
Amy Ellen Mahtiya To Winyan Blue Sky Woman Crooks-Larca (1946-2012)
Beulah Brunelle (in Shakopee 1946-1952)
Ngoc Quy Nguyen Sheehan (1947-2007)
William Willy Carl Rein and the River Rats (1950s)
Mack Christensen (in Shakopee in 1950)
Glynn Allyn Crooks (1950-2018)
James Joseph Vig (1952-2016)
Susan Marie Wiggen Fry (1952)
Marjorie M. Beckrich (1954-2010)
George Meredith Crooks (1954-2022)
Mari-Luz Palacios (in Shakopee 1955-1956)
Julia Perez-Moniforte (1955-2015)
Aunt Jemima (in Shakopee 1956)
Luis Alberto Canchari Nuñez (1956-2020)
Ernest Raymond Coursolle Jr. (1961-2019)
Patrick Biyogo Ayienda (1962-2021)
Tammie Linda Half Moon Women McDonnell Steinmetz (1962-2023)
Scott Marvin Skeeter Mosher (1965-1986)
Guillermo Billy Martiń Lopez (in Shakopee 1967-1968)
Karen Anne Preiss Fowler Short (1967-2015)
Anderson Nguyen (1968-2021)
Paul Lyle Oyăte Nawičhakičižin Protects the People Enyart (1968-2018)
Policarpo Sanchez Evangelista (1969-2019)
CayCee Moyee “Boogie” Jarvis Durham Johnson (1969-2019)
Gina Morales (in Shakopee 1971)
Laura Reiko Shellum Koeck (in Shakopee 1972)
Agatha Margaret Mickey Barlau Baden (Bus Driver in 1973)
Joleen Benoit (Miss Minnesota 1973)
Donna Mae Ojala (in Shakopee 1973)
Pham Thi Hoa (in Shakopee 1975)
Fr. Jacob Nedumkallal (in Shakopee 1976)
Cindy Strand (1978)
Aurelio Marin Mendez Jr. (1978-2020)
Rose Vyskocil (Waiter since 1979)
Katherine Marie Brewer-Knight (1979-2023)
Scott Richard Caske Taḣca Wihni Hokṡida First born son who hunts for deer, Boy Vig (1981-2020)
Carlos Roberto Huerta Zanotelli (1982-2007)
PFC Edward James Jim Herrgott (1983-2003)
Hsiang-Yi Angela Wang Richter (1984-2021)
Paul Pablo Edward Schwaesdall (Pablo’s Mexican Restaurant since 1986)
Douglas James (House of Yim 1986)
Tieu Ky (Family Chow Mein 1986)
Patrick Leo Lléȟleȟya Máni (Walks with Fire) Foote III (1987-2020)
Susan Xian Jeung (in Shakopee 1992-1997)
Jason Andre Cahigas Perkins (Filipino-African American Basketball Player born 1992 in Shakopee)
Mary Hernandez (in Shakopee 1993)
Alexander Luis Canchari (1994-2023)
Mathias Antonio Soto-Elgueta (1996-2020)
Angelica Maria Arevalo-Contreras (in Shakopee 1999)
Theresa Garcia (in Shakopee 1999)
Jamal William Abu-Shamala جمال أبو شمالة (in Shakopee 2001)
America Mafalda Thayer (Killed in Shakopee 2021)
Anika Delgado (Ecuador Olympic Swimmer Born in Shakopee 2002
Veronica Vern Leigh Giese, First Female Firefighter (2004)
Nina Makem (Wrestler in Shakopee since 2015)
Andrew Adams
Dr. Frederick H. Buck
Florence Courtney Melton
Dan Eddings
Pelagie Eliza Faribault Manaige
Ruth Gardner
Eleanor Gates
Joseph Godfrey
Mr. Griffin
Susan Maria Hazeltine Adams
John H. Heinen
David Lennox How
Icazontewin
Jesse James
Joe Jenn
Ursula Kennedy Holmes
Jane Lamont Titus
Charles August Manaige
Grace Manaige
Minnie Josephine Otherday Weldon
Dr. Bror Folke Pearson
Rev. Samuel W. Pond
William Louis “Bill” Quinn
Father Augustin Ravoux
John Shoto
Moses Starr Titus
Witch-e-ain