Walter LaBatte

Walter (Super) LaBatte was born in Pipestone, Minnesota in 1948 to Walter and Genevieve LaBatte. He lives in Granite Falls, Minnesota and is enrolled as a member of the Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate.

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Title “Makte sni , makte sni, damakota do, damakota do.” Walter LaBatte \|Oral History	Other Details Theme: 1862 Topics: Family in 1862, Dakota Exile/Diaspora, Camp Release Keywords: Camp Release, Marches, Treaties, Trials, March
Title Everything that God created is a relative of ours Walter LaBatte \|Oral History	Other Details Theme: Culture and Values Topics: Dakota Culture and Values Keywords: Food, Philosophy
Title Sometimes getting rid of things doesn’t have the effect that you want Walter LaBatte \|Oral History	Other Details Theme: 1862 Topics: Fort Snelling Keywords: Fort Snelling
Title You know, you get a certain job and it fits like a glove Walter LaBatte \|Oral History	Other Details Theme: Life Today Topics: Dakota Life Today, Jobs Keywords: Jobs
Title “God was talking to us. God was talking to us.” Walter LaBatte \|Oral History	Other Details Theme: Growing Up Topics: Growing Up Keywords: Spirituality
Title I can’t understand why they’re mad Walter LaBatte \|Oral History	Other Details Theme: Life Today Topics: Dakota and Settler Relationships, Dakota Land Keywords: Trust, Land Loss, Germans, French, Traders, Attitudes
Title The war doesn’t sound like it was very well planned out. Walter LaBatte \|Oral History	Other Details Theme: 1862 Topics: Perspectives on 1862 Keywords: Gabriel Renville, Factionalism
Title The way it was written, the government never intended to pay us the full amount Walter LaBatte \|Oral History	Other Details Theme: Shared History Topics: Treaties, U.S. Government Keywords: Consequences

Walter LaBatte

Associations: Dakota (Oceti Šakowiŋ), Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate,

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Walter LaBatte