Our History:

Several hundred years ago, a band of the Mdewakanton Dakota Native Americans traveled across the Mississippi River from Dayton’s Bluff to
establish a village on a site at Concord Street near Butler Avenue. The tribe was called ‘Kaposia’ which means light of foot.

The Kaposia band of the Mdewakanton Dakota were the first people to settle in our community, which was incorporated as the City of South St. Paul in 1887.
In 1976, the original festival planning committee selected the name Kaposia Days in honor of the Mdewakanton Dakota.