Ojibwe and Dakota American Indian Chief, he was the adopted son of Chief Shakopee I and the twin son of Ojibwe Chief Ozaawindib ("Yellow Head"). He was also called "the Eaglehead". The city of Shakopee and Shakopee Lake in Minnesota were named after him. He signed many treaties with the US government, including the 1825 Treaty of Prairie du Chien, 1826 Treaty of Fond du Lac, 1837 Treaty of St. Peters, the 1842 Treaty of La Pointe, and the 1851 Treaty of Mendota. During the 1851 Treaty of Mendota, Chief Shakopee and other Dakota chiefs were pressured into selling 24 million acres of their land for only pennies an acre. As part of the treaty agreement, the federal government agreed to distribute money and food to the American Indians, who were finding it increasingly difficult to live traditionally as self-sufficient hunters. The wild game that was once so plentiful on the frontier was being greatly diminished due to increased settlement and hunting for sport by European settlers. During the 1830's, he was a guide to French explorer Joseph Nicollet, a geographer and mathematician who mapped the Upper Mississippi River basin. He provided key details to Nicollet on the Mississipi River's tributaries, including the Rice Creek tributary near Fridley, Minnesota. Pioneer and missionary Samuel W. Pond said that he was "a man of marked ability in council and one of the ablest and most effective orators in the whole Dakota Nation". After his death, he was given a traditional sacred burial at his village by his people. He died at the Lower Sioux Agency near Morton, Minn. His son, Shakopee III, became the next Chief. The treaties signed by America's first people, including Chief Shakopee II, were broken by the US government. These broken treaty agreements became one of the major causes of the Indian Wars during the later 1800's. His son, Chief Shakopee III, would become a leader in the US-Dakota War of 1862.