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The Mendota Mdewakanton Dakota Tribal Community is a non-federally recognized Dakota Indian community in the State of Minnesota. Their present-day community formally organized in 1996 to petition the federal government for recognition as a federally recognized Indian Tribe. They are lineal descendants of Mdewakanton Sioux Indians who lived in, and around Mendota, Minnesota, and whose names appear on various Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) censuses of the Mdewakanton Sioux Indians of Minnesota.

The most famous of the Mendota Mdewakanton Dakota peoples was probably "Old Betsy," or Azayamankawin in the Dakota language. After the US / Dakota War of 1862, she and her son Taopi and his family had first settled at Faribault, Minnesota, on land owned by Alexander Faribault, who himself was a mixed-blood Dakota, and who had recently moved from Mendota to Faribault in 1853.

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