Penasha

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Penasha, also known as Pinisha or Wayaga Inazin, was a Mdewakanton Dakota chief in the 18th and 19th centuries. In 1780 he led about 1,900 people at the mouth of Nine Mile Creek, at Titanka Tannina or Pinisha’s Village. William Snelling described him as “a harmless, worthless, drunken vagabond.” Penasha often visited Fort Snelling and signed the Land Cession Treaty in 1805. He died in the 1820s or early 1830s. He was succeeded by Takuni Phephe Sni, and soon after by his grandson Good Road. Titanka Tannina was sometimes labeled as Good Road from then on, until it was dismantled in 1851 after the Treaty of Traverse des Sioux. The area is now part of Bloomington, Minnesota.