Sioux Uprising

history) during the U.S.-Dakota War in southern Minnesota. Two years later, U.S. troops carried out the massacre of hundreds of surrendered and partially disarmed Cheyenne at the Sand Creek Massacre.

A Sioux uprising in 1862 culminated in a mass hanging at Mankato on December 26, when 38 Sioux were executed for having massacred white settlers (President Abraham Lincoln reduced the number from more than 300 sentenced to death); the execution spot is marked by a monument.…

…which became known as the Sioux Uprising of 1862, one of the bloodiest Indian wars in the country’s history, was occurring in Minnesota. The Dakota, who had not been driven from the state during European settlement, were confined to small reservations. The federal government had forced the sale of some…

…atrocities of 19th-century America: the Sioux Uprising (1862), in which Dakota warriors killed some 400 settlers in Minnesota, many of whom were women and children, and the Sand Creek Massacre (1864), in which members of the Colorado militia killed at least 150 and perhaps as many as 500 people, mostly…

…as the Dakota War orSioux Uprising; although President Lincoln commuted the sentences of most of these men, 38 Dakota were ultimately hanged in the largest mass execution in U.S. history. After their defeat the Dakota were relocated to reservations in Dakota Territory and Nebraska.