Medicine Bottle (Mdewakanton)

Medicine Bottle
Wakan Ozanzan
Shakopee III (left) and Medicine Bottle (right) at Fort Snelling in November, 1865
PronunciationWa-kan O-jan-jan
Bornc.1831
Mendota, Minnesota
DiedNovember 11, 1865
Fort Snelling St. Paul, Minnesota
Cause of deathHanging
Other namesHoly Light
OccupationMedicine Man
RelativesBig Eagle (brother)

Medicine Bottle also called Holy Light (Dakota: Wakan Ozanzan; c. 1831 – November 11, 1865) was Mdewakanton Dakota medicine man accused of taking part in the Dakota War of 1862. Medicine Bottle is one of the two other Dakota men including Shakopee III who were executed in 1865 for allegedly partaking in the Dakota Uprising three years prior along with the other main 38 Dakota men who were extrajudicial killed in the 1862 Mankato mass execution.

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