Tatanka Najin "Standing Buffalo"

1804-06 Lewis & Clark, gives the chiefs of the two Sisseton bands of Sioux as: Sissatone (chief Wack-he-en-do-tar) & Caw-ree (chief Tar-tung-gan-naz-a). [Original Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804-1806]

1805-07 Pike's table lists Sisseton chiefs on he Lac de Gross Roche / St Peters as: Wacanto (Blue Spirit), Waminisabah (Black Eagle), ltoye (Big Pipe) & Wuckiew Nutch (Red Thunder). His journal describes the two Sisseton Sioux band as: The third band are the Sussitongs [Sisitonwans or Sissetons] they extend from the Roche Blanche [White Rock] to Lac de Gross Roche [Big Stone or Inyantonka lake] on the river St Peters; they are divided into two subdivisions. The first called the Cawrees [Kahras] are headed by the chief called Wuckiew Nutch or Tonnere Rouge [Red Thunder]. The second the Sussitongs proper, are headed by Wacantoe or Esprit Blue [Blue Spirit]. These two sub bands hunt eastward to the Mississippi and up that river as far as the Riviere De Corbeau. [from "The Expeditions of Zebulon Montgomery Pike", Elliott Coues].

1823 - Long, gives the chiefs of the two "Miakechesa" or "Sisitoan" bands of Sioux as: (a) Sissetons proper; no fixed abode; chief rendez vous, Blue Earth r.; hunt buffalo over to the Missouri; live in skin tepees; their chief Wahkanto or Blue Spirit, by hereditary right. (b) Kahra or Wild Rice Sissetons; no fixed abode; Lake Traverse and Red r.; skin lodges; follow chief Tantankanaje (Standing Buffalo), hereditary, but also a warrior.

1823 - Keating (William H. Keating), the historian of Long's (Stephen H. Long) expedition in 1823 wrote as follows (in his Volume I page 403) describing this band Kahra (Wild Rice). These Indians dwell in very large and fine skin lodges. The skins are well prepared and handsomely painted. They have no permanent residence, but frequently visit Lake Travers. Their hunting grounds are on Red river. They follow Tatankanaje (the Standing Buffalo), who is a chief by hereditary right and who has acquired distinction as a warrior.

1825 Sisseton Sioux signers of the Prairie du Chien treaty are: Tartunka-nasiah, Sleepy Eyes, Two Faces, Little Crow & Wa-sa-o-ta.