Mdewakanton Dakota Chief. Also known as "Little Six" (Shakopeela), Eatoka, or Shakpedan in Dakota or Zhaagobens in Ojibwe ("Little Shakopee). He was the son of Chief Shakopee II, after whom the city of Shakopee and Shakopee Lake in Minnesota are named. Shakopee III became Chief Shakopee after his father died. He was a leader in the Dakota War of 1862, during which he said he killed 13 women and children. After the war, Congress called for the forced removal of all Dakota from Minnesota in April of 1863, so he fled to Canada. He was captured illegally in Canada during the winter of 1864 and brought to Fort Snelling in Minnesota. He was tried and convicted by a military commission for his participation in the war and sentenced to death. After President Andrew Johnson confirmed the sentence in early November, 1865, a crude gallows for two was built. On November 11, he was hanged at Fort Snelling alongside his friend, Medicine Bottle. Father Augustin Ravoux, a French Jesuit priest and missionary who had been a friend of the Dakota for many years, baptized them, administered their Last Rites, and stayed with them through their final moments. According to the St. Paul Weekly Press of Nov. 16, 1865, the bodies of Chief Shakopee and Medicine Bottle were laid to rest in coffins which had been placed in front of the gallows. "The lid was placed over them, and they were taken, each coffin borne by four soldiers, to the place in the Fort assigned for the dead. They were buried at 6 o'clock p.m. in the military burying grounds." Another article refers to the burial location as "the little cemetery" at Fort Snelling. However, another local newspaper reported that prior to burial, the bodies of Medicine Bottle and Chief Shakopee were removed from their coffins and replaced by rocks. The stone-filled coffins were then buried at Fort Snelling. The locations of these buried coffins today are unknown. According to the Director of the Fort Snelling National Cemetery, the National Cemetery did not open until the 1930's, but it contains many unmarked graves from the 1860's. Internment records for the unidentified burials do not contain names, so the locations of where the coffins were buried cannot be identified today. After the bodies of Medicine Bottle and Chief Shakopee were removed from their coffins, they were donated to medical science. Both bodies were apparently sent to the anatomical medical surgery department at the Jeffersonian medical college in Philadelphia. On Nov. 20, 1865, the editor of the Ravenna Democrat, a Philadelphia newspaper, published an article about a medical lecture he had attended that evening at the Jefferson Medical College. At this lecture, Professor Joseph Pancoast spoke about the Dakota war in Minnesota during the summer of 1862. He mentioned the trials and executions of Chief Shakopee and Medicine Bottle, and then revealed the body of Chief Shakopee, which he later dissected for purposes of teaching his medical students anatomy. This detailed information is being shared in the hope that it may help lead to the discovery of remains that can be identified and repatriated under the Native American Graves and Repatriation Act.