Wapasha, or "Red Leaf," was the name of several important Mdewakanton Sioux chiefs between roughly 1750 and 1870.The first two where chiefs of the moundbuilders of Minnesota and Wisconsin, a tribe of the Algonquin Sioux. Wapasha III, inherited the chiefdom of the Mdewakanton Sioux from his father in 1836. He was leader of his people when moved only to Western Minnesota, closer to their homeland than most indians. Under Wapasha III, the Sioux took action against the whites for their displacement, primarily through the actions of a Mdewakanton chief named Little Crow, who led raids into Southwestern Minnsota and Iowa. Wapasha III died in 1876 in an indian agency camp, his people broken.